A Real Bill Gates Rant 293
lou ibmix XI submitted an
email written by Bill Gates a few years ago and turned over to the feds as part of the government's antitrust case. Great quotes like 'Someone decided to trash the one part of Windows that was usable?' and 'The lack of attention to usability represented by these experiences blows my mind.' We like to think of him as an abstract, but I think this is interesting stuff. Also, this might seem familiar. Oops.
Re:I don't get it (Score:5, Funny)
I don't understand all the hate for Bill.
Stay off my lawn.
Re:Massive Dupe (Score:5, Funny)
it's actually a fantasy game! (Score:5, Funny)
FTA: "In fact it is more like a puzzle that you get to solve. It told me to go to Windows Update and do a bunch of incantations."
Finally, someone at Microsoft admits that you have to use magic to make Windows work right... I would comment more, but I am on my way to my daily Ballmer goat and bull sacrifice.
Carter Pewterschmidt (Score:5, Funny)
Re:it's actually a fantasy game! (Score:5, Funny)
FTA: I would comment more, but I am on my way to my daily Ballmer goat and bull sacrifice.
Ah yes, where you let a live goat or bull into the Ballmer enclosure at feeding time.
Because Ballmer doesn't want to be fed... he wants to hunt!
Comment removed (Score:3, Funny)
Re:gust? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:thanks but I need more than a lower case j (Score:5, Funny)
Oh, great. So you're reproducing.
Thanks.
Re:Carter Pewterschmidt (Score:1, Funny)
I guess you are just too highbrow to spot the Family Guy quote.
Re:Abstract (Score:5, Funny)
You know, composed of a lot of straight lines and sharp angles, both eyes on the same side of his head, lots of colors everywhere, that sort of thing.
Re:I don't get it (Score:5, Funny)
The vision at Microsoft has always been to try and reduce complexity.
Surely you jest.
Re:Abstract (Score:3, Funny)
From Microsoft's website:
Re:I don't get it (Score:2, Funny)
Unfortunately some things are inherently complex, and as you try to wrap them behind simplistic abstractions...
Does anyone else see the irony in a poster reducing a company like Microsoft's approach to one of "simplicity", while he himself reduces the complex discussion down to a "simplistic abstraction"?
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even worse, he's dead wrong.
Rather, the poster porkchop's argument that Microsoft chose flexibility is bang on.
Re:I don't get it (Score:3, Funny)
Re:it's actually a fantasy game! (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Download page to download? No way! (Score:2, Funny)
No, this is MS in a nutshell:
"Help help, I'm trapped in a giant nutshell. What kind of a nut has a shell like this?!"
Re:I don't get it (Score:5, Funny)
The vision at Microsoft has always been to try and reduce complexity.
Surely you jest.
I am quite serious, and stop calling me Shirley.
Re:Glass houses and stones... (Score:3, Funny)
"Grammer" is not an English word I have ever encountered.
She's married to Gramper.
Re:Massive Dupe (Score:3, Funny)
Hmm...well, this year for lent, I'm either going to stop giving up things...
Or...I'm going to quit not drinking.
Will worry about that later, tomorrow is Fat Tuesday, and NOLA is a wonderful place to live this time of year!! I feel so sorry for all my friends around the country, that not only will they not have a cold drink in their hand by 6am...but, will be actually going to work?!?!
Hmm, now, what to drink for morning beverage? Bloody Mary?...Screwdriver?...Beer?.....Bucket of Everclear?
Re:Massive Dupe (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Massive Dupe (Score:4, Funny)
Connecting to the SMTP port directly and writing ASCII in base 13 is better than Outlook.
Re:I know it's a dupe, but... (Score:5, Funny)
It is said that realizing there is an issue is the first step to resolving it :)
It is also the first step to ignoring it.
Re:Massive Dupe (Score:3, Funny)
Re:I don't get it (Score:4, Funny)
The vision at Microsoft has always been to try and reduce complexity.
Alas, their hallucination has morphed into a very bad trip indeed.
The quote about "we didn't realise people would try and download it from the downloads page" is a classic example.
Who the hell mixed PCP into their acid?
Low bar to cross (Score:3, Funny)
Git is a better source code control system than Visual Source Safe. cp is a better source code control system than Visual Source Safe. Heck, rm is a better source code control system than Visual Source Safe.