Re:Jobs and Woz (2011)
by jsjohnst on Monday August 19, 2019 @07:56PM
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> More of a business guy than pure programmer.
Bill Gates actually was a very strong programmer in the early days, so this characterization is misguided. He was very passionate about writing code for other developers, not about catering to end users. It wasn’t until later in Microsoft’s history that he was more business focused.
Happy to dig up articles to back this up, but seriously it should be trivial to find tons via a simple google search if you really care.
Edit: re-DOS, sure they bought it. Do you know anyone who can write an operating system in under a month (the timeline MicroSoft had with IBM)?
Bill Gates actually was a very strong programmer in the early days, so this characterization is misguided. He was very passionate about writing code for other developers, not about catering to end users. It wasn’t until later in Microsoft’s history that he was more business focused.
Happy to dig up articles to back this up, but seriously it should be trivial to find tons via a simple google search if you really care.
Edit: re-DOS, sure they bought it. Do you know anyone who can write an operating system in under a month (the timeline MicroSoft had with IBM)?