Wrong reality
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| djohnston Aug 27, 2013 6:22 PM EDT |
Quoting:Here's the difficult reality: Wall Street wants a tech visionary back running Microsoft. You mean Microsoft had a visionary? Oh, he means Bill Gates. Enough with the accolades, already. Gates a "visionary"? Sure, he had an idea. Did he create the solution? MSDOS was not created by Bill Gates. He bought it from someone else and made changes. Bill's mother used her influence with IBM to get him the contract. Moral to the story: It helps to be born with a silver spoon in your mouth. Bill has made probably as many miscalculations and blunders as has Ballmer. "The internet is just a fad." Remember, Bill? |
| TxtEdMacs Aug 27, 2013 7:47 PM EDT |
d.j., Better yet, they did not even buy the original Internet Explorer* it was borrowed with the understanding that they would split the funds they got selling it. Well Bill and his buddies had a better idea, they gave it away so there was no cash to share ... YBT * I have never been able to recover the original article, however, the browser with that name did not belong to MS. It was part of a site that MS drove into the ground and the "trusties" of the bankrupted site sold the name for a pittance, i.e. a million or so. Just one more case where he did not need his family's help to execute standard MS business practices. |
| BernardSwiss Aug 27, 2013 8:07 PM EDT |
But Bill Gates was a visionary. He had this "crazy" idea that you could build a business model around providing the operating system itself -- not just providing one with and as part of some hardware or service. Not every one agreed with this paradigm -- especially not the people seen as the intended customer base. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Letter_to_Hobbyists This was a real departure from the way (for example) BSD was developed and distributed. |
| djohnston Aug 27, 2013 9:20 PM EDT |
Quoting:He had this "crazy" idea that you could build a business model around providing the operating system itself -- not just providing one with and as part of some hardware or service. Okay, in that one respect. Point taken. |
| Francy Aug 27, 2013 10:11 PM EDT |
@djohnston For your reading pleasure: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/86-DOS |
| cybergal Aug 27, 2013 11:28 PM EDT |
Here are a few interesting links re Internet Explorer:
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/spyglass,_Inc
http://www.out-law.com/page-3964
http:/arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/07/the-webs-longest-nightmare-ends-eolas-patents-are-dead-on-appeal
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosaic_(web_browser) - |
| djohnston Aug 27, 2013 11:56 PM EDT |
@Francy Ah, 86-DOS. I was thinking CP/M, but believed that to be wrong because it was a "competitor", per se, to PC/MSDOS. The price of growing old and losing a few neurons along the way. @cybergal The last link should be http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosaic_(web_browser). (You left the trailing ) out of the URL.) Happens to the best. Thanks for the link. |
| montezuma Aug 30, 2013 8:19 AM EDT |
Gates had one big idea. Make computers into universal household appliances via a clever marketing campaign. That big idea netted him his extraordinary wealth. Since then he has had a series of pretentious "ideas" worth nothing much. The problem with a lot of these "senile" corporations is a top down culture driven by a dude living on past glory. As an up and coming company with great ideas you face these giant lumbering organizations with their huge stashes of cash. |
| JaseP Aug 30, 2013 10:38 AM EDT |
Quoting: Gates had one big idea. Make computers into universal household appliances via a clever marketing campaign. That wasn't Gate's idea... All computer users from the mid-70s wanted computers to be ubiquitous. I have (had?!) a Byte magazine from 1976 (I think it was) that had a cartoon of a crowd on the cover where people had banners that said "Two Computers in Every Home." (The Altair was offered as a kit in advertisements in the magazine) Once again, Gates just followed,... didn't lead... PS: Here's that cover... http://andreslombana.net/blog/visuals/byte-centenial.JPG |
| montezuma Aug 30, 2013 3:15 PM EDT |
JaseP, Sure I remember that too. Gates actually did it though via slick marketing. You should give him credit for achievement not just the dream. A lot of folks had the same idea at the same time. Gates though actually did what they were all thinking. |
| JaseP Aug 30, 2013 7:51 PM EDT |
Right place,... right time,... right age (Gate's),... right opportunity,... According to the infamous "But for,..."... I coulda been a billionaire too... Too bad I was 7 when he founded MS,... I DID have Unix experience at that time, though... |
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