Re:Bill Gates’s Favorite Business Tales, in The New Yorker
by cpayne on Saturday July 12, 2014 @10:09PM
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You are discounting a LOT of Bill Gate's history. Yes, he did miss the "internet", (as someone who worked with Microsoft in Australia) he literally turned the company around in 6 weeks.
But if you still say Bill "missed" the internet, you are discounting Netscape vs IE wars.
The internet in the 90's was a very different place to the internet today.
But before that, Bill Gates got a lot right! Eg Excel vs Lotus, Word vs Word Perfect, Windows vs OS. The whole history of DOS.
As others have said, its like saying Steve Jobs is a failure because he was sacked by the company he founded (Apple).
But if you still say Bill "missed" the internet, you are discounting Netscape vs IE wars.
The internet in the 90's was a very different place to the internet today.
But before that, Bill Gates got a lot right! Eg Excel vs Lotus, Word vs Word Perfect, Windows vs OS. The whole history of DOS.
As others have said, its like saying Steve Jobs is a failure because he was sacked by the company he founded (Apple).