Comments on: Gates: PCs fall short

Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates chats with Berkeley students about everything from open source to malaria to the next Xbox.

[Seething Ganglia]

What did you expect?

Of course he thinks he's right. Of course he'll defend his company. Of course he wants you to relicense incrementally upgraded software.

MS's devastation, er, innovation

Anyone know how well Microsoft's PMC (Personal Media Center)
is selling these days? I?ve been on the edge of my seat waiting to
read about the hordes of satisfied Windows users.

PMC = Perfectly Mediocre Cr@p
PMC = Petty Market Capture
PMC = Performs Miserably Completely
PMC = Probably Microsoft?s Coffin

[Earl Benser]

Of Course....

Most of the PC users either don't care about the technical details
of their OS, or they aren't capable of understanding those
details. So they believe the advertising, and the market flow, ie.,
the lemming principle. Thus, the PC, and the Windows OS, are
the dominant factors in the market. And Bill has been there from
the beginning, tho usually late, to capitalize on the lemmings.

So he's opportunistic, and sticky fingered, and sees the world
through strange glasses. It's not news. Pound on him all you
want, he doesn't care. How big a dent can you put into 50 billion
dollars? Rise to his support and you're another lemming, but so
what? There's plenty of company. And plenty of money for those
who try to keep the PC/OS running.

And ol' Bill will still be there, expounding as usual. I guess that if
I managed to build a company as big as M$, I'd expound too.
And I'd probably have even more people pointing out where I am
wrong.