Exclusive: Microsoft chairman Bill Gates talks to Computing - Club CDFreaks

*Kenshin* · 16-11-2005

Link: http://www.computing.co.uk/computing...osoft-chairman

Microsoft chairman Bill Gates talks to Computing

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Originally Posted by Bill Gates

Google is generating the sort of stock market and media excitement that was once afforded to the younger Microsoft. The search engine firm is seen by many experts as trying to disrupt the market in much the same way as Gates once did with the rise of the PC.

But, while acknowledging Google as ‘a fine company, a serious competitor’, he is dismissive of the threat.

‘Which Google products are you talking about? Seriously? Other than search, which are you talking about? Google Talk? Wow. A total “me too” product. Even Gmail – what is the unique thing?’ he says.

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Originally Posted by Bill Gates

On the future of the PC

Computer users are increasingly turning to new devices for accessing key applications and information. PDAs, mobile phones, even digital TV, are all changing attitudes towards the ubiquitous PC. But, not surprisingly, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates still sees the PC – albeit a very different one – as the future.

‘The PC will be able to recognise speech, you will be able to use ink with it, and it will have a camera capability so it can see what is going on,’ he says.

‘The tablet form factor will be something you just take with you to meetings. There is a lot to be done. The PC will be a phenomenal device compared with what it is now.’

Next week, Gates talks to Computing about Microsoft at 30, reducing IT complexity, the image of the industry, and what happens if it all goes wrong.

LastStand · 16-11-2005

Even though google is getting way to powerful I have no wish for a company like mircosoft with its record to take over. With the money and connections that MS has it is going to be very hard for google to fight on a level playing field. When the next windows OS is shiped it will come with windows live already installed and builted into applications.

*Airhead* · 16-11-2005

And then we'll have another EU hearing and MS will have to remove their monopolistic Live from European versions and pay alot of money and all that, ala Windows Media Player.

*Kenshin* · 17-11-2005

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Originally Posted by LastStand

Even though google is getting way to powerful I have no wish for a company like mircosoft with its record to take over. With the money and connections that MS has it is going to be very hard for google to fight on a level playing field. When the next windows OS is shiped it will come with windows live already installed and builted into applications.

What Bill says is basically that Google is not a serious competitor for Microsoft because Google is NOT competing against Microsoft. Therefore, Microsoft doesn't need to "take over" Google. Google cannot fight on a level playing field against Microsoft just as Ferrari cannot fight on a level playing field with GM or Toyota. I've asked the same question over and over again. What's so different between DR-DOS vs. Microsoft, Apple vs. Microsoft, IBM vs. Microsoft, Novell vs. Microsoft, Borland vs. Microsoft, Lotus vs. Microsoft, Netscape vs. Microsoft, AOL vs. Microsoft, Wordperfect vs. Microsoft, Google vs. Microsoft, Linux vs. Microsoft, Sun vs. Microsoft, Sony vs. Microsoft, and so on? IBM probably had the best chance among all those to become luckier than Microsoft for some years at least.

rehab junkie · 18-11-2005

Don't forget that Sun Microsystems are going after Microsoft in the server market too, by offering x86-based servers running Solaris.

LastStand · 18-11-2005

Google is competing against Microsoft, Windows Live and MS search engine. Google is scanning books and achieving them online, so is MS. Google offers emails services and so does MS. Google is a big threat to MS web aspirations, if you are to be the big cheese in the internet age you have to be the gate keeper in control of information flow. This includes searching, email, online achieves, forums, media (pictures, movies etc), and voice/chat.

*debro* · 23-11-2005

Um .. Bill Gates = Master of the Obvious?

Of course PC's will never be taken over by PDA's / internet appliances /etc.
PC's are umpteen times more powerful, general purpose & expandable.

BG: Google? Wow! Have they got their own OS? I think not. We bundle "live" with windows & for the first 3 years windows will have a "bug" that ensures google.com & variants cannot be resolved to IP address by DNS query, or at least greatly hinders the speed of the site. Oh, and the google programmers smell like goat cheese.

*Kenshin* · 24-11-2005

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Originally Posted by LastStand

Google is competing against Microsoft, Windows Live and MS search engine. Google is scanning books and achieving them online, so is MS. Google offers emails services and so does MS. Google is a big threat to MS web aspirations, if you are to be the big cheese in the internet age you have to be the gate keeper in control of information flow. This includes searching, email, online achieves, forums, media (pictures, movies etc), and voice/chat.

Netscape and Sun's network computers were once supposed to compete against Microsoft in such ways. Searching, email, media... aren't these already included in "OS" really? Whether you call it fair or unfair. That's why who controls OS is thought to control the computer industry which in turn could control the whole world of new money.

@rehab junkie

Sun had the server market. Microsoft came very late to the server market where the much smaller Microsoft did relatively well to compete against the big established guys like Sun, HP, IBM, etc. A UNIX-derivative OS running on x86 processors is hardly new. Since when have we had UNIX?

16-11-2005	#2 (permalink)
LastStand CD Freaks Member Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Belfast Posts: 249	Re: Exclusive: Microsoft chairman Bill Gates talks to Computing Even though google is getting way to powerful I have no wish for a company like mircosoft with its record to take over. With the money and connections that MS has it is going to be very hard for google to fight on a level playing field. When the next windows OS is shiped it will come with windows live already installed and builted into applications. __________________ Ten Most Harmful Books of the 19th and 20th Centuries 1. The Communist Manifesto 2. Mein Kampf (My Struggle) 3. Quotations from Chairman Mao 4. The Kinsey Report 5. Democracy and Education 6. Das Kapital 7. The Feminine Mystique 8. The Course of Positive Philosophy 9. Beyond Good and Evil (The Nazis loved Nietzsche) 10. General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money

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18-11-2005	#5 (permalink)
rehab junkie CD Freaks Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: /var/local/pub/bar Posts: 414	Re: Exclusive: Microsoft chairman Bill Gates talks to Computing Don't forget that Sun Microsystems are going after Microsoft in the server market too, by offering x86-based servers running Solaris. __________________ Bustin caps in the mix, rather be judged by twelve than carried by six.

18-11-2005	#6 (permalink)
LastStand CD Freaks Member Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Belfast Posts: 249	Re: Exclusive: Microsoft chairman Bill Gates talks to Computing Google is competing against Microsoft, Windows Live and MS search engine. Google is scanning books and achieving them online, so is MS. Google offers emails services and so does MS. Google is a big threat to MS web aspirations, if you are to be the big cheese in the internet age you have to be the gate keeper in control of information flow. This includes searching, email, online achieves, forums, media (pictures, movies etc), and voice/chat. __________________ Ten Most Harmful Books of the 19th and 20th Centuries 1. The Communist Manifesto 2. Mein Kampf (My Struggle) 3. Quotations from Chairman Mao 4. The Kinsey Report 5. Democracy and Education 6. Das Kapital 7. The Feminine Mystique 8. The Course of Positive Philosophy 9. Beyond Good and Evil (The Nazis loved Nietzsche) 10. General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money

23-11-2005	#7 (permalink)
debro Blown to smitherines Join Date: Jul 1999 Location: The c@ke mixer Posts: 9,975	Re: Exclusive: Microsoft chairman Bill Gates talks to Computing Um .. Bill Gates = Master of the Obvious? Of course PC's will never be taken over by PDA's / internet appliances /etc. PC's are umpteen times more powerful, general purpose & expandable. BG: Google? Wow! Have they got their own OS? I think not. We bundle "live" with windows & for the first 3 years windows will have a "bug" that ensures google.com & variants cannot be resolved to IP address by DNS query, or at least greatly hinders the speed of the site. Oh, and the google programmers smell like goat cheese. __________________ CDFreaks - Overwhelmed by Ignorance since 2005! We lost the battle, but we haven't lost the war! Click Here to sign up to the resistance movement! Viva La Resistance! Admitting that you've illegally downloaded movies/songs and need help to process/burn is comparable to robbing a bank, and walking into the bank the next day holding the bags of money to deposit them into your account. Don't be surprised if people laugh at you when you make the headlines.

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