Q&A with Bill Gates: Microsoft's pushing its frontiers
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| Q: As you head off to your next career, how do you react to critics who say
| Microsoft has become too big, too bureaucratic, too political, too slow to
| innovate?
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| A: One thing I've always loved about the culture at Microsoft is there is
| nobody who is tougher on us, in terms of what we need to learn and do better,
| than the people in the company itself. You can walk down these halls and
| they'll tell you we need to do usability better, push this or that frontier.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/usatoday/20071004/tc_usatoday/qampawithbillgatesmicrosoftspushingitsfrontiers
By "too bureaucratic, too political" the interviewers must have meant "too
corrupt" and "too manipulative", which is true.
Vista +1 details emerge
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| This particular presentation centered around two new key features of the OS,
| diskless PCs and ethernet storage.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2007/10/04/vista-details-emerge
So, /after/ Vista, Windows will have caught up with yesterday's Linux.
Related:
Gates deposition videos
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| Boies: Do you remember that in January, 1996, a lot of OEMs were
| bundling non-Microsoft browsers?
|
| Gates: I'm not sure.
|
| Boies: What were the non-Microsoft browsers that you were
| concerned about in January of 1996?
|
| Gates: What's the question? You're trying to get me to recall
| what other browsers I was thinking about when I wrote that sentence?
|
| Boies: No, because you've told me that you don't know what you
| were thinking about when you wrote that sentence.
|
| Gates: Right.
|
| Boies: What I'm trying to do is get you to tell me what
| non-Microsoft browsers you were concerned about in January of
| 1996. If it had been only one, I probably would have used the
| name of it. Instead I seem to be using the term non-Microsoft
| browsers. My question is what non-Microsoft browsers were you
| concerned about in January of 1996?
|
| Gates: I'm sure -- what's the question? Is it -- are you asking
| me about when I wrote this e-mail or what are you asking me about?
|
| Boies: I'm asking you about January of 1996.
|
| Gates: That month?
|
| Boies: Yes, sir.
|
| Gates: And what about it?
|
| Boies: What non-Microsoft browsers were you concerned about in
| January of 1996?
|
| Gates: I don't know what you mean "concerned."
|
| Boies: What is it about the word "concerned" that you don't
| understand?
|
| Gates: I'm not sure what you mean by it.
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http://wincent.com/a/about/wincent/weblog/archives/2007/02/gates_depositio.php
http://edge-op.org/iowa/www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/3000/px03020.pdf
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