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What would you do if you saw Bill Gates (Live)???
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Thank you!
I love it when people running a different platform have serious hatred towards the creator of another. Clearly MS has done remarkable things for people in terms of computing. They've entered into markets that others did not and flourished. If I saw Bill Gates in public I would most certainly thank him for his contributions, his continued contributions, and more importantly MS Office.
The OP is cute when he expresses hatred towards MS and Ballmer. Really now. And btw, the red circle around the MS icon should have a slash through it if you were really anti-ms.
I am an ass so I would likely suggest the he actually put out an operating system that can compete with Leopard. I bought a new computer for Leopard and I am sure Apple's Mac Market Share will grow even more this quarter, I wonder how people people went and bought a PC just to run Vista, I am sure the number of people downgrading to XP was higher.
Microsoft is a horrible company with horrible products. My Thinkpad runs Linux and I haven't had Windows installed on any of my personal machines in at least a year.
Microsoft is a horrible company with horrible products. My Thinkpad runs Linux and I haven't had Windows installed on any of my personal machines in at least a year.
I love when he was interviewed by Donny Deutsch once, and Donny asked Bill, "What's on your iPod" The look on Bills face was precious.
I totally agree! Hey, I'm not a total Microsoft enemy, I think Office for mac is great, and so is the Xbox. But hey, they could drop the zune, windows and steve ballmer (he's unprofessional).
I am going to have to disagree with even Office being the choice suite, I have been using OpenOffice.org since my switch to Linux and even use it on my Mac (waiting for the bugs to be worked out of the Aqua version so I don't have to run X11). I am not a gamer but even with that said I like the Wii and PS3 way better than the 360 (and the first Xbox was only good if it was being modded ot run Linux).
I'd leave him be....I'm not a fan of bothering famous people for autographs etc.
took the words out of my mouth.
Maybe there is a reason for you not using it, but NeoOffice is a great port of OpenOffice for the Mac. Fatastic in the waiting time for OpenOffice to go native
I would say that I really like my XBox 360
only because microsoft lost money on the purchase
I'd hand him my broken XBox and tell him I want my money back.
Then I'd do my best Steve Ballmer impression.
Tell him thanks for keeping my hometown (Redmond, WA) wealthy and well with his monopoly company.
I would then have him sign my iPod.
I would then have him sign my iPod.
I'm not a big Donny Deutsch fan, but it's pretty cool that he asked him that question.
I doubt I'd say anything if I ran into him randomly, and I don't collect autographs. I do admire his business sense and appreciate the good things that he's done for personal computing, even if I don't happen to be a fan of Windows.
Maybe there is a reason for you not using it, but NeoOffice is a great port of OpenOffice for the Mac. Fatastic in the waiting time for OpenOffice to go native
I don't know why I have never heard of NeoOffice, I just downloaded and installed it and it is very nice. Thanks for letting me know about it.
How many of you thank Microsoft for Office when you could be using NeoOffice instead?
I would thank him for using his money in a wise way. All computer related stuff aside, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation does great stuff.
I would shake his hand and thank him for his major contribution to the computing world, namely the creation of computer repair jobs like mine.
A 14 year old girl coming up and talking to him would probably freak him out, so I wouldn't do anything, but If I did, I'd try to make small talk with him. I don't hate Bill or Microsoft, I just choose not to use their products.
I personally would want to pick his brain because the guy is a business genus. Both Jobs and Gates started with next to nothing and well M$ took over the world for lack of a better term. It really re marketable in business side of things. I really would like to know more details on how he pulled that off.
