“Now that he’s in his 50s, Bill Gates is still fanatical — fanatical about Microsoft’s new tablet/PC thingy known as the Surface, a device he believes Apple may have to follow,” Chris Matyszczyk reports for CNET.
“Gates described how his goal with Microsoft had been to deliver ‘the magic of software to people both in their work and in their home,'” Matyszczyk reports. “Surface, he insisted, is a new form factor. He called it ‘exciting.’ (He subsequently got even more excited about that excitement.) ‘You don’t have to make a compromise. You can have everything you like about a tablet and everything you like about a PC all in one device. And so that should change the way people look at things.'”
Matyszczyk reports, “How come, though, pressed [interviewer Charlie] Rose, Jobs was able to cross the tablet threshold and Gates wasn’t? ‘He did some things better than I did,’ admitted Microsoft’s co-founder.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Besides banking cash, something at which he was no slouch but didn’t much care about, either, Steve Jobs did everything better than the increasingly delusional Gates.
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Are you kidding me right now?
Seriously???
As if he plans to say the next iPad copied them!!!
I’d like to give Bill Gates a huge wedgy right now just based on cluelessness alone. And a multiple Biff Tannen “HELLO!” knock upside the head. Well I guess Gates is mainly just good now for tech comedy relief in his old age.
Memo to Bill Gates:
Bill,
Please stop making embarrassing remarks like this, it’s my trademark. Besides, in case you hadn’t noticed our Surface “product” is a direct spin-off of Apple’s current iPad device, so how are they going to spin-off our spin-off.
Oh, stop, this is making it hurt behind my eyes.
Sincerely,
S. Balmer
The latest issue of Vanity Faire tells the ‘inside story’ about how Balmer and bureaucracy turned Microsoft into the company they had always laughed at …
http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2012/07/microsoft-downfall-emails-steve-ballmer
I like our stragety, I like it a lot …..
I think he means Apple will have to put a floppy flap on the back… now that’s real innovation.
‘He did some things better than I did,’
Some??
Fanatical, delusional, and dishonest with himself.
I bet if they drank enough Exlax, Billy and Ballmer would find their heads. Maybe.
Oh my gosh I almost busted a gut laughing at that one!! Thanks for the afternoon zinger!!
They would probably package the “results” of the Exlax and call it magic!
Here is a possible problem with that statement. They have shit for brains!
Wow, these posts hame made my 4th, LOL!
You’ve unintentionally disclosed Zune production trade secrets…
– Sparky
Un freaking believable…..
Wow… Windows 8 is the very definition of “compromise.”
Gates said “the Surface may force Apple to rethink its own approach to the iPad.” Yeah but wouldn’t that actually be a DOWNgrade? Why would Apple want to make the iPad a worse experience only Microsoft has an exclusive on?
Bill, give it up. Apple created the current tablet market that you now copy. You made your attempt ten years earlier and it was a flop. So, I would advise to keep your mouth shut. You are one clueless Steve Jobs wannabe.
The irony: out of all the companies..MS should see that the enterprise “PC” is again transitioning into a “thin client”. With Citrix, and great VNC/RDP support, the iPad or tablet in general makes for a great iPad replacement. Churning out a tablet/ultra book mix isn’t the answer..especially when it will cost the same as a more capable ultra book. Consumers don’t want the intel surface. Enterprise doesn’t want Win 8. This is dead in the water.
iPad or tablet in general makes for a great iPad replacement
?????????????????
My organization offered the option of a thin client and one division pushed it as a test case. It was a dismal failure and those people are being transitioned back to full-featured desktops/laptops. Just another brief thin client cycle in the circle of life.
+1
Lmao!!!
I knew there was something wrong with the water in Seattle…
Ha Ha Ha
(wipes eyes)
Ha Ha Ha
Microsoft says “no compromises” eh?
Well I can’t wait to turn a Surface into portrait mode and witness all its uncompromising agility!
But would I need to go into a Microsoft store to perform such an experiment? (Perhaps not.)
Flip a Surface over into portrait mode? No problem!
Here’s a link to the illustration:
(Enjoy)
-hh
stuck on big ass table mini me
Are people so naive as to think Apple didn’t already ask these questions?
Ah hahahhaha!
Ah hahaha!
Oh wait he’s serious?
Let me laugh even harder!
AH HAHAHAHAHA!
Apparently I missed Charlie Rose moving to the Comedy channel?!?!
I think what Bill is trying to say is that he thinks Apple should be announcing more vapor ware.
“Surface-like”? The iDoorstop? The iPaperweight? The iLostItWeeksAgoButIDon’tCareBecauseItNeverWorkedRightAnyway?
I’m surprised Gates never went into politics. Regardless of affiliation, he’d be a perfect fit in DC. That type of stone cold Orwellian logic is what it takes to be a politician, which is why regular humans can’t cut it. It takes a special kind of monster, and Gates could’ve walked into the White House backwards.
“‘He did some things better than I did,’ ”
yep:
a few small things like:
— better hardware
— better software
— better design
— better eco system
— better shops
— better customer support
That’s what I was thinking too. Gates said a mouthful there.
you left out better ideas (make that any ideas)
Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!
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’nuff said!!!
If you take the chart back to 2000 it really shows the difference. MS is flat lined all away across. Their investors must be thinking why didn’t we invest in Apple?
Gates realizes that his beloved company is tanking and the guy running it into the ground can’t make it work. So he has to step up and do some marketing and propaganda for the company. It’s a pathetic thing to see!
They really need to change the company name to Wintelsoft. It seems they are a one trick pony. Every attempt they have made on other architectures has ended in failure.
When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail!
Sometimes I wonder if Gates is waiting for Balmer to sink the ship (picked him Intentionally to sink it) so he can swoop back in at the last minute and ‘save’ Microsoft. He’s always been jealous of Steve Jobs… Insanely so…
But he’s admitted he does not have Steve Jobs taste – a big DUH there. Microsoft HAS no taste, never has. Not with the dummy filter at the top.
He won’t go back because if he did and Apple beat the snot out of MSFT he’d have been at the helm. Too big a risk.
That’s not an ‘if.’
Billy thinks the Surface is “exciting”? Hmmm… yeah, he must think enemas are exciting too.
By “exciting” (to Microsoft’s standard) he means same old same old and the only thing they know. What’s really new about it the way they present it – a laptop computer with a removable keyboard? It’s not really designed to be an easy to use media consumption device, more a mediocre clumsy device.
Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain…!
Surface is exciting? has to be if you’re face down!
Bill just needs to shut up, the man lost his mind along time ago and now it’s seeping into the News.
When this guy talks no one listens except when he throws around a few million.
What a hasbeen.
All the media are telling people that the iPad has no keyboard and so is not as good as Surface. Somebody please show these idiots all the keyboards that are available for the iPsd.
Well you know, now we will play the spec game! Touch, check, keyboard, check, toilet paper, check, you get the idea.
It’s working for Samsung and android so far. Consumer reports will just love the crap out of the specs for “surface”.
All I have to say is that on Star Trek, a PADD was used for many things, but an actual computer was used for more complicated tasks.
This is Apple’s stance, and I think a correct one.
Computers will change, but tablets have their place as less complicated data access and input devices.
We do not need an all in one device, and honestly the iPad provides everything a tablet should, but Microsoft is doing this to separate themselves from the pack.
With out full computer features, they would be no different.
Either way, it’s powered by Windows 8… enough said.
Gates has gone beyond being delusional.
He has either become seriously addicted to pot or Alzheimer’s is setting in.
May be he should change the name from MICRO-SOFT to MEGA-STIFF!! Lol
Gates isn’t the drug taking type and he’s not old enough to be senile, but something has fried the logic area of his brain.
Nah, it isn’t drugs or Alzheimer’s.
It’s simply Bill Gates drinking his own kool-aid.
Gotta love Charlie Rose. That guy’s got some real Apple product loyalty!
http://m.techcrunch.com/2008/03/17/charlie-rose-face-plants-to-save-his-macbook-air/
Loved his Pixar – Jobs interview too… He doesn’t dodge the hard questions
Interesting that Gates is talking about a new product rather than Balmer. Is there a whiff of panic in the air?
Everything Microsoft does are just like trucks. Microsoft is basically a software company, where it can add features willy nilly to its softwares. It is trying to treat hardwares like softwares, where adding features for features sake is the way to go. No wonder, every softwares of Microsoft are feature-rich and blotted. Likewise in hardwares, the Microsoft’s and Google’s camps the hardwares are also feature-heavy and blotted. Imagine driving a truck to do everyday and mundane tasks in the neighborhood!
Apple also has feature rich operating systems (maybe that’s part of why we see the beach ball more as time progresses) but not all of them are known. You end up discovering many of them and going “woah, holy crap! I didn’t know you could do that when I bought this!” but so much of the time, you’re quite happy with the discovery and end up using it a lot and thinking, “why the hell don’t all computers do this?”
http://m.techcrunch.com/2008/03/17/charlie-rose-face-plants-to-save-his-macbook-air/
You can tell that Microsoftians are scared. They had to send in Gates to shore up their faltering game.
I love the last two lines of the article:
‘ “This is a seminal event,” he [Gates] declared.
All we need now are the date of the seminal event and the price of entry to it.’
LOL!