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b3n87
June 19th, 2008, 10:27 PM
The BBC have done a report about bill gates, its on telly tomorrow at 7pm, BBC1 or 2 cant remember. They played a clip, it was quite "lol"

The reporter went into his office and he had Vista on three monitors, she goes "does your every crash? - mine does" then awkwardly laughed.

Obviously Bill denied it all and joked about emailing people if something annoys him or something.

damis648
June 19th, 2008, 10:29 PM
Ha :popcorn:

EDIT: FOUND IT!: http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/club/your_reports/newsid_1697000/1697132.stm

b3n87
June 19th, 2008, 10:31 PM
Just imagine if it was Ubuntu on this desktop, and when the camera man comes in he tries to hide it like it was porn

"no, no, dont come in, IM BUSY!!!!!!! ARGHH"

damis648
June 19th, 2008, 10:35 PM
Just imagine if it was Ubuntu on this desktop, and when the camera man comes in he tries to hide it like it was porn

"no, no, dont come in, IM BUSY!!!!!!! ARGHH"

I could envision that. :popcorn:

b3n87
June 19th, 2008, 10:39 PM
When I was younger I was so convinced I was going to move to america and work for Mircosoft, how wrong I was!

On another note, he talks with his hands and his neck is small. He also slumps in his chair. Tut tut

b3n87
June 19th, 2008, 10:48 PM
OMG

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7461783.stm

scroll to the bottom and watch the video, get to 6:30mins in!!

Edit:

"Some people want professional software, others want... free ones"

damis648
June 19th, 2008, 10:57 PM
OMG

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7461783.stm

scroll to the bottom and watch the video, get to 6:30mins in!!

Edit:

"Some people want professional software, others want... free ones"

Bill Gates disappoints me in so many ways.

Old Marcus
June 19th, 2008, 11:36 PM
Microsoft renowned for its openess? Perhaps if you pay them a few hundred grand...

Mr. Picklesworth
June 20th, 2008, 02:16 AM
The secretary person has some funny stories :)
Nice link.

As for Craig Mundie...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QG2MnhrrY7s
I love that video.

He has some nice vision on what we can do with high end computers (and Microsoft has some amazing assets for natural input... not sure about output). He also does nicely pointing out that Microsoft does quite a bit of innovation with their new products like the XBox.
The opposite of innovation, though, is duplicating an existing standard so that it becomes proprietary to one's own platform, which ultimately destroys the innovative nature of that being a predictable standard. Thus, when we take Windows into account, Microsoft still ends up with zero innovation points.

Microsoft also has a strange way of flat out denying the existence of Debian - or packaging systems in general - which give automatic updates on a scale far beyond what Microsoft's software will ever do. (For that matter, I just converted someone to Ubuntu who had his Windows install nuked by Vista's service pack 1 update resulting in an endless "installing updates" freeze-up). It would be nice if the journalists pointed that out. Someone should make sure they are aware.

Delever
June 20th, 2008, 02:22 AM
but Microsoft still has a strange way of flat out denying the existence of Debian - or packaging systems in general - which give automatic updates on a scale far beyond what Microsoft's software will ever do.

You are wrong - i found windows package manager: http://www.windowsmarketplace.com/

FranMichaels
June 20th, 2008, 02:28 AM
Just read about it here
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7461783.stm

Um yeah, definitely missing some info, I would love to see a program covering what came out of Microsoft vs Comes.
http://www.groklaw.net/staticpages/index.php?page=2005010107100653#comes

As someone who chooses not to use Windows or any Microsoft product at this pointL:

I can say I hold nothing against Mr. Gates, but I'm glad Windows lock-in and Office lock-in (thanks ODF) is on the decline... :popcorn: