Reply to: Bill Gates quits Microsoft

[Swamp Thing]

Now I'm impressed. Tell me how you made your first. Please. I'm not joking.

Give me your details, pay me a tenner and I'll let you know

[Dundeegeorge]

Your 'next' million?

Erm, I think Bogeyman has the point here. Let’s say I create something that sells phenomenally well. But it needs constant revisions, updates etc. I withdraw support for some of my products after only 8 years, and thus put the onus on the customer base to sort out further problems. Lots of customer complaints all round anyway. But the money keeps rolling in and I become a gazillionaire. Well, I think my conscience could live with all of the former if I became the latter. At least then I wouldn’t have to trawl the esteemed threads of CUK to work out how to make my next million…

Now I'm impressed. Tell me how you made your first. Please. I'm not joking.

[Swamp Thing]

Erm, I think Bogeyman has the point here. Let’s say I create something that sells phenomenally well. But it needs constant revisions, updates etc. I withdraw support for some of my products after only 8 years, and thus put the onus on the customer base to sort out further problems. Lots of customer complaints all round anyway. But the money keeps rolling in and I become a gazillionaire. Well, I think my conscience could live with all of the former if I became the latter. At least then I wouldn’t have to trawl the esteemed threads of CUK to work out how to make my next million…

[stackpole]

knob

Perhaps he means that a knob looks like a purple Dalek. It does a bit, but without all the details.

[bogeyman]

Oscar Wilde with tourettes...

Lady Bracknell: a ******* handbag!

[bogeyman]

knob

Feck me! It's like debating with Oscar Wilde.

[bogeyman]

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 ****.

Oh well, I see you have the intellect of a prawn, sure enough.

You start an argument and can't finish it, or even discuss the matter in a rational and civilised way.

"Stupid ****"

Yeah! Way to go!

[Purple Dalek]

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

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

knob

[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 ****.

[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?

[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.

[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]

Knob

What's your problem?

[Purple Dalek]

Blah blah blah blah blah

Knob

[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.