Submitted by From Channel 9: “Visit Bill in his office for a few minutes to talk about where he sees the future going. This is a fun interview (WMV), prepares you for the PDC that’s coming next week.” Also, here is an interview (WMV) with Microsoft’s first employee.
Both video links don’t seem to be working…
Must be a problem on your end– they’re working fine here (Firefox 1.0.6, Linux).
It works here but it’s painfully slow (3 KB/s each)…will take a couple of days on that speed!
I would be interested in an unscripted and unedited interview by a real reporter of Bill Gates. The MS corporate — or any corporate — generated ones are sure to be bland like milk or water that has set out a bit too long.
(Note: I have nothing aginst large corporations in general.)
Maybe corner him at a bar and start feeding the nerd some drinks. Now that would generate one hell of an interview.
Scoble’s done a good job here. I hope he gets to interview him again when his courage/confidence is higher to ask bolder questions!
Otherwise, Gates comes out with his usual brilliance and charm.
I only get sound, using mplayer-1.0_pre7-r1 on Gentoo AMD64.
If visiting him in his office is watching a video, I guess the future is going down the toilet.
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Fool, that’s supposed to be 38 “DEVELOPERS”. It just doesn’t make any sense without those last two “DEVELOPERS”.
About 1:50 into the interview Bill says “The problems we are working on… are just so intrestesting…”
You could say that again Gates.
Even farther into the vid gates says “The thing I like about the Tablet PC’s is there is no competitors, it’s just Microsoft”.
Need I say more?
Oooohhh! and then!!! “You could the whole tablet pc experiance around $500” Excuse me Mr Gates… maybe you havent seen the price of Tablets yet??? Maybe???
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Seems like all OSNews.om wants to do is sleep with Microsoft.
Why don’t you take a stand against these criminals instead?
What are you about?
“Seems like all OSNews.om wants to do is sleep with Microsoft”
Considering this is a site for news about operating systems Microsoft probably doesn’t get it’s fare share of attention.
If OSNews used worldwide usage to measure content, 80+ percent would be about Windows, with the rest split between OSX and all of the distro’s of Linux.
Be damn glad they don’t follow those numbers.
I often wonder if Linux doesn’t get entirely too much press considering how few actually use it as a desktop OS. Just because Linux is popular with us geeks doesn’t make it popular with the masses who surf the net.
Most users likely cruise straight through OSNews when they determine it to be of little help in supporting Windows. OSNews would likely generate a lot more traffic by heading further down the Windows path.
Be glad they do what they do, and don’t jump their ass for their occassional Windows article.
As far as I’m concerned, you can take your rationalization and step aside.
Those of us that “get it” understand that this is war and I’ll jump on anyone’s ass and speak up anytime it’s necessary.
Microsoft wants to control everything we do regarding computing and if you think otherwise you are ignorant. Microsoft’s past/ current/future plans and business model are bad for consumers because they try to stifle our ability to use and develop alternatives and ultimately control what we use. IE: being forced to use IE and Windows for most people! Thank God the OSS community has done what they’ve done so far.
What I see going on at OSNews.com is pandering to Microsoft and hyping up the article quotes to draw more attention to these articles.
The way I look at it… sleeping with the enemy.
If OSNews.com was truly concerned with the “future of computing” then they would take a stand against these criminals and help the crusade!
here…
http://rixstep.com/1/20050907,00.html
“As far as I’m concerned, all politicians are weak people who do not have the guts to really make important decisions.”
so, I challenge you to take a stand against Microsoft and make an important decision not to support them publicly.
Well I watched both videos and thought they were fun. Light hearted etc… I especially enjoyed the hour with Marc McDonald. Nice to see someone that seems so open minded to ideas and methods that one would not usually associate with the “evil” Microsoft vision that a lot of people tend to have. I liked the entire iPod references he made and the discussion about building better tools and being smarter about finding issues be them programming errors or missing features or functionality.
The interview with gates of course seemed to send a different overall feeling. I suppose Mr.Gates is used to speaking on camera and choosing his words. So it felt like he really had tailored answers but not scripted ones..
All in all the Marc interview was interesting and enjoyable. Even the talk with Bill had some interesting points about what is coming with XML and the like.
I wish it was possible to have even more video interviews with others in the software industry that are one to one unscripted and fun. Not just a product sales segment.
I am not a huge fan of Microsoft myself (Use a Powerbook mostly) but I do believe MS make good quality products, has talented people, and make some of the best development software and documentation. I dont really know why they are so “evil” and would love to know.
I am not a huge fan of Microsoft myself (Use a Powerbook mostly) but I do believe MS make good quality products, has talented people, and make some of the best development software and documentation. I dont really know why they are so “evil” and would love to know.
I don’t. I think they can do much better.
You should take a peek into the real world.
Have a look at :
* the way Microsoft reacts to competitors.
Its current greatest competitor in the server area is Linux. You can’t sue it, you can’t buy it out, and if you try to screw with it, you’re gonna get much more than a bloody nose. (See SCO as an example).
So anyway, one minute MS spreads its FUD : “Get the Facts” campaign. (This turned out to be an utter failure).
Next minute, they have their own open-source lab (to make tools to interoperate with Unix/Linux/etc) and say that its about “the right tool for the job”.
The only reason you study a competitor’s OS, is to understand it, so you can kill it. (And it doesn’t take a genius to work that out).
I seriously wouldn’t be surprised when Apple steps onto the plate and challenges MS with its OS X on the desktop. MS will react in a similar fashion. (Use any tool to put competitors down.)
Why waste the time?
If you provide great quality products, what are you worried about? Why do you need to waste time, money and effort in crap? Why not focus on actually bringing in something new? Maybe solve one of those bugs that have been annoying users?
The truth is, MS products aren’t all that great in quality. They know it, and so do many technically minded people. But as long as it sells and people believe what they’re told, why does it matter?
The problem for MS is, it DOES matter.
Would you seriously use a Microsoft product in a mission-critical scenario? Where lives depend on it?
Put it another way, if the products of MS are really that good in quality, are you willing to bet your life on it? What about your loved ones?
Think about that next time when you read or experience a situation when something on the Windows box bombs on you in a spectacular way.
When people say “MS produces quality products”.
Other people laugh…Try and find out why, and you see through MS’s facade.
* how its actually handling the security issues of its OS.
The never ending band-aids…How about actually solving the problem? Why not actually sit down, tear that source-code and do something differently. (That doesn’t break compatibility, but offers a better, improved (security-wise) way of things?)
* how true innovation is thrown out the door for the never ending need to generate profit.
When was the last time MS actually brought something into the world that is completely new and different?
Heck, Apple does a better job in this Dept. (Even though I don’t like Apple…At least they do provide some innovation there).
* how it uses its PR machine
eg : The Chinese Govt rejected MS’s solution in favour for alternatives, and what does MS do? Have articles that say everything is cool in the server market in China, etc, etc. (There’s a recent one in EWeek.com…Its so blatently obvious that it was a “heavily influenced by MS PR” article.)
The MS PR machine is what I call the Microsoft Reality Distortion Field. (MRDF for short)
Another one was their so-called “Honey Monkey” idea. Basically, you have a bunch of boxes that simulate a typical web surfer, and going to sites, and asking for trouble. (delibrately sacrifice Windows boxes for research).
MS claims that it found an exploit this way.
In reality, a third-party security company informed MS of the issue! (This was conveniently left out of their article!)…People that were “in the know” in security will tell you this.
* the pointless “anti-piracy” measures they use.
Seriously, Windows Activation and Windows Genuine Advantage are pointless (and annoying) things that make the customer jump extra hoops for no real purpose.
It doesn’t even attack MS’s piracy problem.
It just irritates users!
This is a VERY SMALL sample of things.
The more you read about it, the more you realise MS can do better, much better.
I dont really know why they are so “evil” and would love to know.
You asked. I hope you like to read;
http://www.google.com/search?hs=2lj&hl=en&lr=&client=firefox-a&rls=…
(In case the link breaks: Query Google with the options microsoft court case 1986 OR 1991 OR 1996.
The years selected were chosen on a whim at 5 year increments. Try the search by adding/removing/changing the years … anything from about 1982 on. The query above yeilds +2M references, though watch out for false positives. About 1/2 the links I looked at seem appropriate.
For another twist, try adding the following option to this query;
~lying
(note the ~ meaning ‘or similar’) ~lying, unfortunately, brings up more false positives though it does cut the list down to 1/2 a million and gives you some pointers to finding more focused results that you may be more interested in once you read a few of the articles or DOJ papers.
Also, try adding the options: sco, stac, novell, ibm, lotus, “done till lotus”, … and just about any other corporation dealing with software including apple.
There’s plenty to read out there and it is widely known to people who have modestly watched Microsoft over the last 20 years.
What is important isn’t that Microsoft has been in so many lawsuits, or who is involved, but the number of cases that have been dismissed after payments by Microsoft or that Microsoft has out right lost. Many fewer cases have been settled in Microsoft’s favor or without penalties or payments by Microsoft.
Others can suggest additional queries, though this will give you plenty of unbiased data to go with. Other queries may drag up more opinion and fewer facts; interesting, but not as verifiable.
“Seems like all OSNews.om wants to do is sleep with Microsoft”
Yeah, rrriigght. So let’s play a little game, and sum up all of the current news on the site. I get :
OSS: 10
AmigaOS: 1
PalmOS: 2
Sun: 3
Apple: 3
Microsoft: 1
Wow. With Microsoft being 5% of the news, and OSS 50%, compared to their real market share, and I’m blown away how OSNews is in Microsoft pocket. Totally.
If OSNews.com was truly concerned with the “future of computing” then they would take a stand against these criminals and help the crusade!
Moron. Why don’t you strap a bomb on your belly and detonate yourself in the Microsoft lobby, while you’re at it? Society don’t need religious freak like you.
I am no fan of MS but a lot of these posts seem a bit crazy or fanatic in tone… Every OS has security problems but MS is targeted often I assume since its the biggest. But Linux, Mac, BSD, etc. are also far from perfect and constantly have updates and patches and such.
MS, Apple, Linux based software and products are all good. MS has a massive majority market-share in the OS market and they want to keep it along with the office. So they keep improving their software and keep their PR system moving along. Apple keeps their clients happy and loyal by providing the nicest environment to work with.. and try to keep their market-share in the iPod by improving their product and holding back their competitors. Linux has a large base of users that like to have full power on their os and do whatever they want within reason it has no massive market-share but does have a good foot print as servers. All are good for what they do lets not get nasty about one over the other.
MS has had bad business practices but so do most large business in some ways less so or more so, why be so picky about one over the other based only on their dominance of a specific product area. Besides its a good time for alternatives to make improvements and additions to try and gain some share. And get some PR going the average joe does not know what a Linux based operating system is and does not really care. And work on some important features like wine improvement and integration ? or that really cool plasma software interfaces.. and perhaps wrapper classes for drivers that are closer to perfect etc. Like in the interview Marc said we are given all this power 3+ Ghz and crazy amounts of memory and storage lets find an actual use for all of it that will improve the users and clients experience and productivity.
In the end the interviews are what we are here to discuss and we have gone far off-topic, mainly because many people prefer to comment about the headline or small description rather than read the articles or watch the media.
Did anyone actually watch the interviews, specifically Marc’s? I found it very informative and open-minded.