“It is almost unthinkable that any one human could pick up where Bill Gates leaves off when he ends his full-time tenure Friday as Microsoft’s leader,” Jessica Mintz reports for The Associated Press.
MacDailyNews Take: Yes, it is unthinkable. Charlie Peace would have to rise from the dead.
Mintz continues, “But as Gates bones up on epidemiology at his charitable foundation, the software company he built with a mix of visionary manifestos and extreme hands-on management must still wake up Monday to face hard problems even he could not solve.”
MacDailyNews Take: Yeah, like how are they going to “innovate” this time when there’s no longer an unprepared sugared water salesbozo around to sign away Apple’s company jewels?
Mintz continues, “From Microsoft’s start in 1975, Gates has been the company’s genius programmer, its technology guru, its primary decision maker and its ruthless and competitive leader. He would famously disappear into the solitude of a country cabin to digest employee-written papers and ponder the future of the industry, then emerge with manifestos…”
MacDailyNews Take: Like the Unabomber. And, Jessica, those weren’t employee-written papers, they were Mac OS discs.
Mintz continues, “At a May gathering of chief executive officers at Microsoft’s Redmond, Wash., headquarters, Gates outlined how he hoped to translate the work once done within the singular confines of his brain into the sort of group projects that could be managed with the company’s own collaboration software.”
MacDailyNews Take: Good God in Heaven.
Mintz continues, “‘We’ve created a thing we called quests, where we divided our types of customers down, and we got the best thinkers on these things, both the very practical people who are with the customers, the engineers who write the code, and the researchers who may be more unbound in terms of their timeframe and imagination, and put them together,’ Gates said.”
MacDailyNews Take: That actually explains a lot. Bloated, spaghetti-coded, focus-less crap covered in rich, creamy bullshit. Microsoft and quality go together like lawnmowers and frogs.
Mintz continues, “Gates did not give any examples of specific quests, though in 2006 and 2007 speeches he referred to the Tablet PC, an innovation he has championed for a decade but which has failed to catch on in the mainstream, as a quest.”
MacDailyNews Take: So, he’s really more like a mixture of Charlie Peace, Ted Kaczynski, and Don Quixote. It’s all finally making sense now.
Mintz continues, “If the quests are as deeply tied to Gates’ own ideas about the future as indicated by the few examples Ballmer mentioned, Microsoft may be in trouble. After all, even with Gates himself at the helm, Microsoft has yet to solve critical competitive headaches. The Internet has changed the means of distributing desktop software applications and even challenged the idea that they’re necessary. Microsoft has scrambled to catch up in music players, and remains an also-ran with its Zune. The most recent Windows Vista operating system landed with a thud. And Microsoft has stumbled badly in Web search and advertising, culminating in Ballmer’s quixotic, $47.5 billion pursuit of Yahoo Inc.”
MacDailyNews Take: Bingo! Well, happy retirement, Bill. Don’t let the door hit you in the ass on the way out.
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: If you’re looking for a tribute to Bill Gates, you’re at the wrong site. Luckily for you, there are plenty of mindless twits elsewhere who seem quite happy to gloss things over, rewrite history, and excuse and/or ignore criminal behavior. We only deal in facts here. Trying to buy your way into heaven with ill-gotten gains after plunging the world into a decades-long Dark Ages of Computing does not warrant a tribute.
“he had his chance to do what he’s been doing all along one more time & he blew it! his parting command should have been to copy apple one last time. i.e. the OS9/ OSX transition!! jettison the legacy code & build a world class state-of-the-art operating system from scratch.”
You left out he needed to have a single product with a minuscule 2% marketshare in freefall that didn’t need to worry about compatibility with 99% of the rest of the world. What a bold risk. I guess Apple also invented BSD since they did it from “scratch”..
Bill Gates, what a visionary
“a troubled Microsoft remians”
What an idiot! Microsoft has more money than god. Windows 7 will be the end of Apple’s little run.Trust me…
Windows 7 will just be Vista with the needed third party drivers.
Trust me …
“Trust me…”
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Oh man, that was funny. So many mouth breathing idiots, too much time.
“Microsoft has more money than god.”
Vishnu just bought a controlling interest in Berkshire Hathaway.
That’s it, I quit. The money you spend on running the site, if any, is a total waste. Have had enough of your silly, bombastic gratuitous and useless foaming and defaming. Apple is not well served by your comments. Applequest.
Rixstep really nail BG here … A great article which shows him for what he was.
http://rixstep.com/2/1/20080701,00.shtml
I’ve now had four posts pulled by MDN from this thread and I don’t know why.
Is it because I said that MDN and many on this site lack a good sense of humour because I said the linked Microsoft video was really funny? Or is it because I said that MDN deliberately inflames their editorials to encourage those people who are narrow-minded and frequent this site. Want to make it five pulled pulled posts MDN. Be my guest and act like a mindless bully.
Windows 7 will be the end of Apple’s little run.Trust me…
Let’s see:
IF Windows 7 delivers all its promises,
IF Windows 7 fixes all the problems inherit in Windows,
IF Windows 7 can run on exiting hardware (ahem, Vista),
IF Windows 7 doesn’t break existing software & drivers, and
IF Windows 7 manages to ship on time,
Windows 7 just might be a credible threat to Apple.
However anyone with any familiarity knows these “If’s” are an extremely tall order, and by now nobody should seriously expect MS to deliver on any of them.
Awesome link, Tom Ward.
“Rixstep really nail BG here … A great article which shows him for what he was.”
(http://rixstep.com/2/1/20080701,00.shtml)
Thanks for that. When you’ve read that, try this next:
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-gatesx07jan07,0,6827615.story
This is a great example of why the MDN takes should be ignored.
I hate MS operating systems. I love OS X and my Apple hardware but I also recognize that from a “Business Perspective” Bill Gates is still the big dawg. He won. He helped shape an industry. An industry that kept me gainfully employed for a number of years and eventually allowed me to pursue other interests.
Enough with the stupidity MDN. I use this site to find articles about Apple. The MDN take has become nothing more than an annoyance.
quests? obviously msft have been playing waaaaaay too much warcraft
@ the amazing logisto
“Yes Falkirk, and I don’t see Steve Jobs giving billions to charitable causes…”
Logical fallacy alert. Can you identify which fallacy?
(not you BT)
would it be something like: just because you can’t see something doesn’t mean it don’t exist?
Real philanthropy would be anonymous, incidentally. I wonder if Bill’s foundation has a marketing department?
Additionally however, the amount of human resources wasted using Windows over the years would way overshadow any attempt by Bill to patch this up (and making him more famous on the way!), especially in the manner it has.
Bill Gates has taken computer processing to a new level from “there is a sucker born every minute” to “there is a sucker born every second.”
Lol the best part about this article was the Charlie Peace comparisons…Gates should end his reign by shouting “So long, suckers!” and jumping out the window, threatening to shoot anyone who follows him.
@John C. Randolph: here’s a great example of Bill Gates’ genius coding skills:
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000862.html