Re: Yahoo! News Story - Gates Shrugs Off Criticism of XP
Bijan Parsia <bparsia-vEoVa6Jh+/J4piUD7e9S/[email protected]>
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On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Yahoo!News wrote: > kendall clark (kendall-1R81iZHCKWOrG/[email protected]) has sent you a news article > > Personal message: > > The most important tool > ever created? Ever? > > More important than the > microchip? Than the printing > press? Than sliced bread! > Than *electricity*? Er...is electricity an invention? Or a tool? > Idiot. He is indeed. > Gates Shrugs Off Criticism of XP > http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20011025/tc/bill_gates_3.html [snip] > To Gates, Windows XP is simply about saving computer users time and > money. > > ``It's a value for consumers,'' Gates said. ``Why are there headlights > in cars? Why don't they make you go and buy those things separately?'' Note: You must by a virus checker separately, afaik. [snip] > ``Windows has always moved forward by including the popular things that > you used to have to buy separately,'' he said. Heheheh. oooooooookay. [snip] > Gates calls Passport a savior, not a threat, to Internet commerce. > > ``We're trying to make the Internet more effective and allow not just > large companies to get to critical mass with these user names and > passwords, but let any company who wants to participate in Passport just > do it,'' he said. Hmm. Key qualification. You must *want to participate in Passport*. [snip] > ``There is no new security challenge created by Passport,'' he said. And look how well they did on the *old* ones :) [snip] > ``The reason we can find that $5 billion in R&D is by coming up with new > innovations, What? This sounds like Dubya in the debates blathering about the mission of the military is to fight and win wars so they don't have to fight wars (or something). > and so if we ever stopped innovating we'd have no income,'' Er..ok. > said Gates. ``So we do need to move forward and our partners are very > dependent on us moving forward.'' Wow. Scary. Cheers, Bijan.