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That Cash Sure Is Burning a Hole in Ballmer's Pocket
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| I’m also a little skeptical that Microsoft can get similar benefits by using
| a few of those spare billions in cash to buy up a bunch of Web 2.0 companies.
| Oh, I think it may well do some of that, but even for a voracious giant like
| Microsoft, integrating a half-dozen or a dozen Web companies in quick
| succession is a huge undertaking. And there’s no guarantee fickle users will
| stick around if and when they’re rebranded Digg Live or Meebo Messenger or
| something.
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http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/techbeat/archives/2008/05/that_cash_sure.html
Poll: Whom should Microsoft pursue next?
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| Bill Gates is being criticized for delivering mixed messages on the issue --
| saying yesterday that the company wasn't ruling out partnerships, and today
| that it would stay focused on its independent strategy.
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http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/microsoft/archives/138390.asp
Billy Boy is still lying through his teeth. One day talking about "independent
strategy" and the following day bankers look into a Facebook acquisition.
Didn't he make a career by lying to partners, deceiving and backstabbing?
More example of Gates' recent lies at the bottom.
Recent:
Bill Gates, which we disagree with
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| As but one more piece of testamentary evidence that the old guard at
| Microsoft needs to be shown the door, Bill Gates has demonstrated
| conclusively that he has exactly zero understanding of open source, or at
| least zero desire to have an intelligent discussion about it.
|
| [...]
|
| Open source insists upon leaving software open to further improvement. And if
| you were to read the European Union's report on open source, you'd see that
| it's actually a massive opportunity for improved GDP growth.
|
| What open source does is ensure that customers share equally in the economic
| benefits of software, rather than having profits hoarded by one company
| (i.e., Microsoft's model). The GPL does this perhaps best of all. In another
| age, Mr. Gates would have found the GPL to be a dear friend to his better
| capitalist instincts. It's actually a close cousin to a proprietary license
| in some ways, except that it protects through openness, not closed source.
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http://www.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9927661-16.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=TheOpenRoad
What is good for Microsoft is also good for the families
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| It seems to be nice to have politicians as Brian Baird ask you staged
| questions, so you can elaborate on your own business agenda and the public
| benefit of your commercial activities. Watch Mr. Gates speak on OOXML.
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http://www.noooxml.org/forum/t-47895/what-is-good-for-microsoft-is-also-good-for-the-families
Gates goes to Washington as US OOXML decision nears
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| Gates answered that Microsoft wants to see OOXML become an ISO standard, in
| part, "so that families and researchers and archivists will be able to access
| information from the past and use it to interact in the future.
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http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=1466102525&rid=-50
Related:
Guess Who's Getting the Most Work Visas
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| Microsoft (MSFT) and Intel (INTC) are the only two traditional U.S. tech
| companies among the top 10. Microsoft received 959 visa petition approvals,
| or one fifth as many as Infosys, while Intel got 369.
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http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/08_11/b4075062465238.htm?campaign_id=yhoo
Study: There Is No Shortage of U.S. Engineers
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| ...a new study from Duke University calls this argument bunk, stating
| that there is no shortage of engineers in the United States, and
| that offshoring is all about cost savings.
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http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2111347,00.asp
Is There a Shortage of U.S. Tech Workers?
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| Speaking before a Senate committee earlier this month, Gates said
| that America is facing a critical shortage of tech workers. He
| recommended boosting the number of H-1B visas to allow more foreign
| tech workers into the U.S.
|
| [...]
|
| "I think that has created an environment where the population of advanced
| skill workers has shrunk a lot in the U.S., because we just haven't created
| a fair system," he says. "Where if you go to other countries, you'll find
| national policy around broadband deployment, which creates a much more even
| playing field for people of all income levels to learn by and work by."
|
| "We did it to ourselves," he says.
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http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/career/article.php/3667376
Bill Gates to address Senate panel
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| Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates is scheduled to descend on Capitol Hill
| next week to pepper a U.S. Senate committee with his suggestions for
| boosting American competitiveness.
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http://news.com.com/2061-10796_3-6163930.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-20&subj=news
Bill Gates Likes To Lie About Vista
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| Denial! C'mon Billy Boy, you know things suck in the land of Vista.
| Just admit it and we'll be on our way.
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http://crunchgear.com/2007/02/21/bill-gates-like-to-lie-about-vista/
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
Bill Gates Busted - Microsoft Lies to Press/Congress
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| Bill Gates has been busted in a big fat lie and we've got the
| statistics to prove it.
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http://www.mydd.com/story/2007/2/7/184312/5388
Talking Linux IP with Bill Gates
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| Niall:
|
| OK. Two questions.
|
| 1. Was Microsoft ever directly involved with the SCO Group
| in their lawsuit against IBM, either through BayStar Capital or others?
| 2. Why is Microsoft recently choosing to go after supposed
| patent violations with various operating system companies?
|
| Bill:
|
| I don't know BayStar.
|
| Niall:
|
| It's an investment company. One of their executives testified
| Microsoft invested $50 million to offset SCO's costs in the lawsuit.
|
| Bill:
|
| When?
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http://www.niallkennedy.com/blog/archives/2006/12/microsoft-linux-patents.html
The Fear biz is the computer security biz
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| A few days later, I saw what Bill Gates had to say in a recent
| Newsweek interview about the Mac as compared to Vista.
|
| "I mean, it's fascinating, maybe we shouldn't have showed so
| publicly the stuff we were doing, because we knew how long the new
| security base was going to take us to get done. Nowadays, security
| guys break the Mac every single day. Every single day, they come
| out with a total exploit, your machine can be taken over totally. I
| dare anybody to do that once a month on the Windows machine."
|
| My reaction, like most knowledgeable people who read this, was
| open-mouthed astonishment. Now, either Bill is heavily drugged and
| delusional, which I don't believe, or he's just completely ignorant,
| which I also discount, or he knows exactly what he's saying and has
| an ulterior motive. That's my best guess.
|
| Bill Gates knows that he's at best exaggerating and at worst
| completely lying through his teeth. So why's he doing it? Because
| he also knows that Apple's new ads are helping Macs to sell like
| hot cakes, and that security is a big reason why a lot of people
| are throwing up their hands in disgust at Windows and switching
| to Apple's computers.
|
| Who reads Newsweek? Not computer pros, but Joe and Jane
| Computer-user, and Joe and Jane tend to believe what they
| read in the mainstream media when it comes to computers,
| especially when that nice, smart philanthropist Bill Gates
| is the one saying it. He's Mr Computer, after all, so he
| must be right!
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/02/11/computer_security_fearmongering/
Gates Deposition Audio and Video
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| Here is our local copy of the depositions of Bill Gates in the
| Microsoft anti-trust suit. We did our best to convert the
| original Windows Media files into an Open format, ogg. Your
| webmaster is responsible for the video transcoding, the
| audio-only files are contributed by a Groklaw member that
| requested to stay anonymous.
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http://www.groklaw.net/staticpages/index.php?page=GatesDepo
Bill Gates Blunder on Vista Pricing
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| If you watched the above video you will recall that bill gates
| said that british consumers will not be paying more than US
| customers, and that any price difference is merely due to
| differences in exchange rate.
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http://www.digitalpunks.co.uk/fullnews/35/Bill-Gates-Blunder-on-Vista-Pricing.php/
Dark cloud over good works of Gates Found
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-gatesx07jan07,0,6827615.story?coll=la-home-headlines
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