Bill Gates leaving Microsoft? Good riddance!
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| "In case you haven't noticed there's been a lot of media coverage about Bill
| Gates retiring from Microsoft and quite a lot of it has been more than a
| little fawning. Well it's time to set aside the fanboy accolades and cut to
| the truth about Bill Gates," Jim Lynch writes for ExtremeTech.
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| "Bill Gates' reign at the top of tech plunged the computing world into a new
| dark age that only the Internet, Apple, Google, and Linux have begun to
| liberate us from," Lynch writes. "Gates' operating system products were
| second-rate copies of more elegant, stable, and technologically superior
| products such as Mac OS, Linux, and Unix. Gates' retirement will be
| remembered as the beginning of the end for Microsoft."
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http://macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog/comments/17823/
Recent:
It's not the Gates, it's the bars
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| To pay so much attention to Bill Gates' retirement is missing the point. What
| really matters is not Gates, nor Microsoft, but the unethical system of
| restrictions that Microsoft, like many other software companies, imposes on
| its customers.
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| [...]
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| But Gates didn't invent proprietary software, and thousands of other
| companies do the same thing. It's wrong, no matter who does it.
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| Microsoft, Apple, Adobe, and the rest, offer you software that gives them
| power over you. A change in executives or companies is not important. What we
| need to change is this system.
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| That's what the free software movement is all about. "Free" refers to
| freedom: we write and publish software that users are free to share and
| modify.
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| We do this systematically, for freedom's sake; some of us paid, many as
| volunteers. We already have complete free operating systems, including
| GNU/Linux.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7487060.stm
The Gates Transition
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| In an interview with the BBC which is being widely linked, I recently
| said “claims by Microsoft that people were buying their software because it
| was good are pretty self-serving.” The BBC didn’t run the rest of what I said
| about Microsoft’s success, probably because they were looking to find someone
| to set up opposite Bill. Fine. These days we have blogs, so here’s my
| unfiltered side of the story.
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http://blog.kapor.com/?p=85
Gates chose the right time to leave Microsoft
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| I can remember reporting on a leaked internal memo that Bill Gates issued to
| Microsoft staff in 1995 which was a literal call to arms to fight both
| Netscape (not mentioned by name) and the onset of the Internet. It was
| obvious to Gates that the cards were on the table and the Internet was
| holding all the Aces.
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| [...]
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| Gates also watched as Microsoft's last great Wintel project Vista turned into
| a disappointing flop, with many users and pundits believing that it offered
| no significant improvements over Windows XP. Similar things could said for
| Office 2007.
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/19100/1023/
Is Microsoft Aura Fading?
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| Yesterday's early relief rally reversed, and Microsoft's value has now fallen
| by more than $30 billion since it unveiled its bid for Yahoo on February 1.
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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121004447596669953.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
Microsoft stock drops amid slumping sales
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| Microsoft Corp., whose Windows software dominates the personal-computer
| market, fell 6.2 percent Fridayin Nasdaq trading after sales slumped, casting
| doubt on whether PC demand can hold up in a slowing economy. The software
| maker reported a 24 percent drop in sales of Windows last quarter and
| forecast earnings that may miss analysts' estimates.
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| "The risk is that Linux gets a foothold and then affects their long-term
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| revenue significantly."
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http://www.sltrib.com/business/ci_9061263
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