Re:Bill Gates in Byte Magazine: The Future of Software Desig...
by jojo14 on Saturday December 28, 2019 @01:23AM
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"Really forward-thinking"? All of what Bill Gates "envisioned" in this 1983 article was already done or about to be done at that time. Gates is well known for being bad at prediction and for having no vision to imagine the future. It certainly is not the reason why Microsoft kind of "succeeded". No need to rewrite history.
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Re:Bill Gates in Byte Magazine: The Future of Software Desig...
by ncmncm on Saturday December 28, 2019 @07:13AM
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Microsoft "succeeded" by cranking monopoly power absolutely as hard as it would go.
They haven't really changed, although they have learned to be less obvious about it.
They set the software world back by 20 years. Before Microsoft, nobody thought computers should just randomly fail all the time. They got people to think it was perfectly normal, and not a reason to send the damn thing back for a refund.