Friday, June 16th 2006
Gates to quit Microsoft
Microsoft's spiritual and temporal ruler King William Gates the III has announced that he will abdicate his throne in July 2008.
Gates says that he wants to work full time at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, a charity organisation he founded with his wife, which focuses on global health and education.
"I have the responsibility to give back to society and make sure those resources are given back in the best possible way, to those in need. It's not a retirement; it's a reordering of my priorities." Gates said.
Source:
The Inq
Gates says that he wants to work full time at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, a charity organisation he founded with his wife, which focuses on global health and education.
"I have the responsibility to give back to society and make sure those resources are given back in the best possible way, to those in need. It's not a retirement; it's a reordering of my priorities." Gates said.
38 Comments on Gates to quit Microsoft
You go Bill...
Gates and Microsoft generate windfall profits from criminal activity, then try to show what a good neighbor they are by donating money they have stolen from CONSUMERS, to charity. This ain't Bill's money, it's money he has stolen from consumers from selling defective products such as Windows, Internet Explorer, etc. without prior disclosure of the known defects. Even though Microsoft has been convicted multiple times for violation of law, they have shown that crime pays BIG TIME and that PACT money can protect you from prosecution. The judical system in America simply does not work when it can be bought by sleaze like Gates and Microsoft.
In all honesty, windows is the absolute greatest thing to happen to the PC since the integrated circuit. Without windows, there would be absolutely nothing to coerce hardware manufacturers into following any form of standards and software would never have come close to its wide compatibility range of today. Everyone would be forced to run custom setup UNIX (or UNIX-based) operating systems, carefully configured precisely for their machine and nobody else's. Without windows, companies like Dell wouldn't have worked, and the majority of people still wouldn't have computers, while the internet could plausibly still be a tinkering of DARPA's.
Without Windows, we'd be lost in an abyss of incompatible hardware and software with no structure to anything.
feel free to flame me now, I don't care.
XooM has the right mindset about this for the most part.
True, Bill is rich because of inflated software prices that “rob” us of our money... but we gave him that money because Windows is simply a "Must Have".
In fact, cost and poor security are the only complaints have with Windows. With that aside it has always been a fantastic, though in the past unstable, product. We can’t really complain too much.
What gets me is people that pay $200+ for a graphics card, and $200+ for a processor without even a peep, and both be outdated in a year. However, they will bitch constantly about the $100 they have to shell out for Windows, and it lasts far longer. XP has been with use for 5 years. So that means the people that paid the $200 when it first came out(that is what I paid for it the day it was released) are still able to use it to its fullest 5 years later, and if you go buy the top of the line Windows off the shelf today it will the same thing you got 5 years ago. I can't think of any other part of a computer that is that important and lasts that long(ok well maybe the case).
power supplies though... a good one can last a loooong time
that and cooling systems.
IMO, see subject line/title... all I have to say!
:)
* Shortest thing you'll ever see me post probably!
APK
P.S.=> XooM - I am w/ ya, 110% agreement!
IBM's Os/2 2.0 - Warp 4.0 were the closest competition though to date imo, but also, imo?
Today, we should all have been running SOME form of UNIX - but, you "Linux & UNIX nuts" can thank AT&T, Berkeley, SCO, & other unix variants for that screwup!
They should have stuck together on ALL fronts imo, instead of stupidly competing... apk
So stop being over-generalizing and ignorant.
T4 GTR
1) If you don't like it, don't use it.
2) They integrated IE and other crap as when it was first built there was no other that could-would run so well on the windows platform.
3) Mebey we should likem Billy boy to Robin hood by what all of you are saying about him, take money from those who have it, to give to those who don't.
4) Props to Schmuv, looked at the price of fuel, or the record profits oil companys are making lately? At least most othe engineering work for this stuff is done here (US) not in India.
5) Bill Gates represents the company no more then the president represents me.
6) You have a small penis.
However that doesn't stop some people from installing it on more than one... :D