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Goodye, Bill Gates!

chartguy

Posted: 27 June 2008 01:15 PM

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I hope this isn’t inappropriate for the AFB. The way I see it we can bemoan the past or look to the future. Or both. But since I can’t change the past I choose to see Bill Gates’ last day on the job today as a very symbolic changing of the guard.

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danthemason

Posted: 27 June 2008 04:33 PM

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No tears here. Gates constructed and ran the OPEC of the technology world. The comparisons to what he leaves behind and what Steve Jobs will leave behind are as different as night and day.

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DawnTreader

Posted: 27 June 2008 06:10 PM

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AFAIK, he remains chairman of MSFT. He remains the company’s largest shareholder. What has changed?

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singularity99

Posted: 27 June 2008 11:49 PM

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Re: Goodye, Bill Gates!

[quote author=“chartguy69”]I hope this isn’t inappropriate for the AFB. The way I see it we can bemoan the past or look to the future. Or both. But since I can’t change the past I choose to see Bill Gates’ last day on the job today as a very symbolic changing of the guard.

over-rated guy.

Someday, historians will put Gates into proper context for the masses: the ruthless nerd for whom mediocrity was “good enough,” who thought business ethics were optional, and who plunged the world into the Dark Ages of Personal Computing.

That history will be written on a Macintosh. And even Gates knows it.

Let him carry on navel gazing in to the future, postulating the road ahead…

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philiped

Posted: 28 June 2008 02:07 AM

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Apple 2.0: The day Bill Gates didn’t call me a communist

http://apple20.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2008/06/28/the-day-bill-gates-didnt-call-me-a-communist/

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Posted: 28 June 2008 09:18 AM

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Re: Apple 2.0: The day Bill Gates didn’t call me a communist

[quote author=“philiped”]http://apple20.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2008/06/28/the-day-bill-gates-didnt-call-me-a-communist/

Excellent.

This must have been a tough interview, but I feel like I was in the room. Good job.

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Tommo_UK

Posted: 30 June 2008 03:25 AM

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Re: Apple 2.0: The day Bill Gates didn’t call me a communist

[quote author=“philiped”]http://apple20.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2008/06/28/the-day-bill-gates-didnt-call-me-a-communist/

Thanks for the heads-up on that article - was a very amusing, entertaining, interesting, insightful read. It felt personal. And it also confirmed much of what I’ve always believed of Gates - that’s he’s demon seed

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Posted: 30 June 2008 03:37 AM

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Re: Apple 2.0: The day Bill Gates didn’t call me a communist

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Posted: 30 June 2008 03:41 AM

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Re: Apple 2.0: The day Bill Gates didn’t call me a communist

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Tommo_UK

Posted: 30 June 2008 03:43 AM

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Best.Photoshop.Job.Ever.

I think a caption competition is needed: go for it! What is Bill Gates saying in this picture?

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Posted: 30 June 2008 04:04 AM

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[quote author=“Tommo_UK”]Best.Photoshop.Job.Ever.

I think a caption competition is needed: go for it! What is Bill Gates saying in this picture?

First day in my new job, and I get to meet cool chicks too!

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Posted: 30 June 2008 04:06 AM

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Bill Gates caption competition

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Bill: -So this is what I have to do to attract the ladies!?

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sleepygeek

Posted: 30 June 2008 04:06 AM

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“Of course not, I just look like him.”

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Tommo_UK

Posted: 30 June 2008 04:18 AM

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“Hi! I’m Bill, your Apple Genius. I invented friggin’ Excel and Word - have you heard of them?

Anyhoo, now that I’ve given up my day job and am focusing on philanthropy and my charitable pursuits, I thought I’d devote the remainder of my life to making up for foisting Windows and the Y2K on the world. I want to show people that its OK to switch.

But just in case you need it, look, this MacBook can even run Windows 3.1! Personally I use a MacBook Air at home, and run DOS under VMWare’s Fusion , just because it makes me all nostalgic for the good ol’ days… ahhh a pizza and a bottle of Jolt… those were the days.

By the way, did anyone tell you what beautiful fingers you have? I have a trampoline room at home.”

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Posted: 30 June 2008 04:23 AM

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Posted: 30 June 2008 04:36 AM

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