Bill Gates Transition/Retirement

[fatandlazy11]

Bill Gates is Microsoft, and is therefore evil.

I beleive this, but only because of the products he shoves down our throats. H is charity work is great, it's awesome that he saves lives, but he is evil in the way his company has a near monopoly over the computer industry. I've always wondered how windows gained so much popularity, considering Mac OS was out way before Windows. I don't believe Micosoft will go down the crapper, I just hope this new person allows for a little more healthy compitition.

 

[IJ Reilly]

I've always wondered how windows gained so much popularity, considering Mac OS was out way before Windows.

That's a long story of course, but the most single most important fact to know is that the IBM-PC (with DOS) preceded the Mac by two years. As anybody who was using the Mac in the 1984-1991 time span can probably tell you, the "consensus" among "serious" computer people was that graphical user interfaces were cute, but not particularly useful, and possibly even harmful. Naturally the story changed after Windows 3 came out. At that point, the Mac and Apple were irrelevant/doomed because now "you can do anything on the PC that you can do on the Mac," the PC is the "standard," and the world certainly didn't need more than one computing platform. And so on...

 

[timswim78]

I just hope this new person allows for a little more healthy compitition.

If you do not like Bill Gates, then I can guarantee that you will not like Steve Ballmer. As a user of MS products, I am very scared that Ballmer is going to be the new leader of MS.

 

[MacQuest]

Tables are turning...

At that point, the Mac and Apple were irrelevant/doomed because now "you can do anything on the PC that you can do on the Mac," the PC is the "standard," and the world certainly didn't need more than one computing platform. And so on...

Funny how things change with time.

Now "you can do anything on the Mac that you can do on the peecee", what was the "standard" back then isn't good enough today, and the world certainly does need better computing platforms than winBlows.

I can't wait for the new professional level Mac Pro's [PowerMac replacements] to come out hopefully not too long after Intel's press conference/introduction of their server class, SMP enabled 64-bit Core 2 Woodcrest chips this Monday on the 26th [the latest the Mac Pro introduction will take place is the week of August 7-11 @ WWDC], and HOPEFULLY a NEW Mac PRODUCT or LINE [1 or 2 models, "Mac Pro mini" or maybe just the "Mac"] of consumer level, lower priced [$1000 - $1500] towers using 64-bit Core 2 Conroe chips.