Bill Gates quits Microsoft

[DimPrawn]

Gates is a tw@t.

Microsoft can only get better with his meddling hands out of the company. He's the sort of geek that thinks:

1. The Internet will never go anywhere
2. We all need animated cartoon characters in our OS
3. Security is low on the priority list (animated cartoon characters are top )
4. 640K is more memory than you'll ever need.
5. Computers are all about 'cool' and 'funky' features.

tw@t.

[bogeyman]

Dear Troll

I must point out that your avatar is actually a picture of hedgehog (or possibly en echidna (Zaglossus bruijni)).

Much preferred it when you looked like a proper troll.

[bogeyman]

Gates is a tw@t.

Microsoft can only get better with his meddling hands out of the company. He's the sort of geek that thinks:

1. The Internet will never go anywhere
2. We all need animated cartoon characters in our OS
3. Security is low on the priority list (animated cartoon characters are top )
4. 640K is more memory than you'll ever need.
5. Computers are all about 'cool' and 'funky' features.

tw@t.

No Prawn - YOU are a 'tw@t'

Gates is a decent bloke. A ruthless capitalist perhaps, the Rockafella of our century, certainly -- but a 'tw@t' he aint.

Rather than sit on his wealth like Ellison or Jobs or Allen, Gates gives it away (indeed, plans to give it ALL away eventually). He's a true philanthropist.

I have my share of gripes with MS, but I don't get this thing where it's cool (geekwise) to personally hate Bill Gates.

Perhaps you could enlighten me?

One thing is for sure, Gates is much cleverer and richer than you or I will ever be.

[DimPrawn]

If you knew ANYTHING about why Microsoft products are often full of gimmicks and crap ideas, focussed on giving us little fluffy animated characters and why Microsoft end up chasing behind companies such as Google and Apple, it's Gates' warped techie out of touch with reality control of the Microsoft.

Yes he's rich and yes he gives it to charity, but in terms of his warped view on what makes a good OS or application, sorry he's a tw@t.

Microsoft as a company will do better without him.

[Purple Dalek]

Blah blah blah blah blah

Knob

[bogeyman]

Knob

What's your problem?

[DimPrawn]

Microsoft was forced to scrap the first incarnation of Longhorn – now called Windows Vista – after a senior executive warned chairman Bill Gates that it was too complex to work properly.

Jim Allchin, group VP in charge of Windows, told the Wall Street Journal he dropped the bombshell last summer, simply telling Gates "It's not going to work". Longhorn was so complex that Microsoft's developers would never be able to make it run properly, Allchin told Gates.

The root of the problem was Microsoft's historical approach to developing software – the so-called 'spaghetti code culture' – where the company's thousands of programmers would each develop their own piece of code and it would then all be stitched together at the end. - Gates idea of software dev, chaotic random development by super geeks.

According to the WSJ interview, Allchin faced opposition to his call for a completely new approach to how Microsoft develops Windows – firstly from Gates himself and then the company's engineers.

[bogeyman]

If you knew ANYTHING about why Microsoft products are often full of gimmicks and crap ideas, focussed on giving us little fluffy animated characters and why Microsoft end up chasing behind companies such as Google and Apple, it's Gates' warped techie out of touch with reality control of the Microsoft.

Yes he's rich and yes he gives it to charity, but in terms of his warped view on what makes a good OS or application, sorry he's a tw@t.

Microsoft as a company will do better without him.

Sorry old boy, I don't think Microsoft is 'chasing behind' Google or Apple! Certainly not according to market share and valuation.

Yes, so Clippy was lame - but it wasn't Gates's personal idea, you know.

Windows NT, 2K and XP are pretty bloody good operating systems. I find the people that slam them know nothing about operating systems and don't even know who David Cutler is.

Funny how a 'warped techie out of touch with reality' built the most successfull corporation in history.

[bogeyman]

where the company's thousands of programmers would each develop their own piece of code and it would then all be stitched together at the end.[/B]

Umm - I think that's called modular programming. Quite popular. Some people even design API and class libraries and stuff.

What should they have done? Have one humoungously talented programmer write the whole shebang in one massive inline slab of code?

[DimPrawn]

Shut up bogeyman. You are making yourself look like an sasguru.

This was Gates' vision of how an OS should be. A real product of Gates' mind:

http://toastytech.com/guis/bob.html

Notice the dog made into in XP as the search "buddy".

Stupid ****.