Today, Bill Gates is retiring as an employee of Microsoft he founded in 1975, to focus on his philanthropic foundation.
Love him or hate him, Bill Gates created an entire industry. Thanks to him, he made the PC technology affordable to everyone. We can enjoy his legacy.
This is an end of an era. I wish him the best.
Engadget celebrates Bill Gates day and Techcrunch wonders who will fill Bill Gates’ shoes.
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I do not agree. Microsoft was a supplier of DOS for IBM PC. Then it made Windows to compete IBM’s OS/2. What kind of industry creation are you talking about ? Maybe office suite softwares (if we say packaging Word + Excel makes a industry of office suites), else I don’t see any other.
I do not agree. Price of the Microsoft operating systems was higher than most competitors. It is an increasing part of the PC price. User interface and reliability was often late on competitors. Okay Excel and Word always were easy to use (if you could buy them). They were not available on non Microsoft OS, this why Bill won.
I do not. But I agree shareholders do.
Me too
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Dadu (David D.)11 July 08 at 6:52 am
I do not agree. Microsoft was a supplier of DOS for IBM PC. Then it made Windows to compete IBM’s OS/2.
What kind of industry creation are you talking about ? Maybe office suite softwares (if we say packaging Word + Excel makes a industry of office suites), else I don’t see any other.
I do not agree. Price of the Microsoft operating systems was higher than most competitors. It is an increasing part of the PC price.
User interface and reliability was often late on competitors.
Okay Excel and Word always were easy to use (if you could buy them). They were not available on non Microsoft OS, this why Bill won.
I do not. But I agree shareholders do.
Me too
.
Dadu (David D.)11 July 08 at 6:52 am
I didn’t said Microsoft invented their technology or whatever, I said they’ve created the PC industry has we know it now. They had more influence than IBM never had or any competitor. That’s why we have cheaper technology.
Microsoft had a motto: “Bring a PC in every home.”
They did it, not the competition.
Frederic Brunel11 July 08 at 3:22 pm
I didn’t said Microsoft invented their technology or whatever, I said they’ve created the PC industry has we know it now. They had more influence than IBM never had or any competitor. That’s why we have cheaper technology.
Microsoft had a motto: “Bring a PC in every home.”
They did it, not the competition.
Fred Brunel11 July 08 at 3:22 pm
To show I am not closed to a (probably never ending
) debate, I conclude my comment with this funny story “If Microsoft Never Existed”:
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,1869093,00.asp
It shows that yes, MS had real influence
.
Dadu (David D.)11 July 08 at 6:39 pm
To show I am not closed to a (probably never ending
) debate, I conclude my comment with this funny story “If Microsoft Never Existed”:
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,1869...>
It shows that yes, MS had real influence
.
Dadu (David D.)11 July 08 at 6:39 pm
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