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7 months ago
By Rob Zanicchi posted Jan 30, 2013
More than 20 years ago, Bill Gates publicly predicted what may have seemed obvious to several of Silicon Valley's finest -- email was going to be huge. While being interviewed on NBC's Today Show recently, the Microsoft co-founder was shown a portion of an interview he did back in May of 1992 where he accurately detailed how the adoption of email was soon to explode. Then 36, the multibillionaire describes how the desktop computer would gain momentum and mold an essential form of communication. In fact, he was surprised that it wasn't "happening a little faster."
Jump ahead 20 years to the present, and email has obviously become an intricate part of modern society, with widespread use across plenty more devices, too. From Google's Gmail to Microsoft's own Outlook, electronic mail paved the way for dozens of webmail providers and endless amounts of software to help us all stay in touch from our devices. These days, Microsoft is still a strong force in the PC arena, though it's essentially been playing catchup in the tablet and mobile arenas -- its fledgling iPad alternative, the Surface tablet, and Windows Phone 8 offerings haven't really trumped the competition like Redmond once had years ago.
As for Bill Gates? The future of Microsoft won't totally be led by the innovator, as he removed himself from the day-to-day duties of the company several years ago to focus on philanthropy. Still, if you want to experience some more of his insight on technology and education, you'll have to catch him at one of his many speaking events -- Bill Gates' TED Talk (Technology, Entertainment & Design) is scheduled to air on PBS on April 16th. In the meantime, take a look at the videos below -- and be thankful that fashion has evolved, too.
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7 months ago
THESE INNOVATORS are OUR Thomas Edison, Nicola Tesla, and the Wright Brothers. We should all step back and realize just how important these men are....and what they have given to the world. World-wide sharing of , and access to information is gradually breaking down the old walls between nations and cultures....perhaps even lessening the threat of war. The world of Lennon's "Imagine" becoming more real......and it was he who inspired them.....we are fortunate.
His very first lucky stike the MS-DOS was finished just barley on time.
In the beginning, I’ve admired Bill Gates, but not anymore. He became a whinny and greedy person. He is telling us that he needs to import workers on H-1B Visas from India and other Third Word Countries just to keep innovation going :-}.
If , I was sitting on a 55+ Billion Dollar wealth, long ago I would’ve built a super High Tech University right next to the Microsoft building and prepare talented American kids for the future instead of taking shortcuts and worrying only about my empire and cheap labor.
Along the way Microsoft has destroyed lots of talented startup companies just to crush competition and innovation in order to keep his monopoly going…
A while back Mr. Andy Grove former CEO of INTEL Corp. said: “The key to success is paranoia…”
Bill Gates has quite o bit of that -}
would say trying to monopolize the market....not only stifled the creative spirit....
buying up all of the fledgling competition just about killed it. So even though Mr
Gates and his company created an entire market for the good of everyone.....they
also ended up hurting it by trying to keep it all to themselves....Kind'a like Ma Bell
did for so long!!! .... But again... having said that.....He was a marketing genius who
had a plan and executed it....changing the world as we know it. ......
I do agree with you....that he is doing some good work now with the money he has made....we'll have to wait and see how they handle what ever changes they make....
Hopefully things will work out for the best!!!!
introduced way back when. One thing I wanted to add.....AOL.....was certainly a large
influence on delivering "email" services back in the early 90's. I remember becoming a
member when there were only around 250 thousand members.....So I was late getting
on the band wagon....but still way before Steve Case had garnished his first 1 million
users!!!!!
AOL community explaining what his staff was working on and so on. So very cool!!
I know all of you folks must have had a blast working on something that was changing
the world. I remember talking to someone about AOL and how it was going to change things...and he asked me ...."But what can you do with it??" .......Oh well...!! I guess
he found out. ...By the way... my answer at the time was..."What ever you want to.." ......Thanks again Brenda!!!!!
someone or reverse engineered. The people at IBM obviously had their heads up
their asses when they signed the leasing contract to use DOS...instead of buying the
software straight out. So what cost Mr Gates 60k....soon became 60M.....
Now... do I hear Mr Gates whining that anyone says things about him....of course not...
because if he wants to... he can buy a fricking planet and move on it. ...I do not begrudge
him though....because he along with his Fathers intelligence....helped put PC's on almost
every desk top on "this" planet. So the world owes him a generous helping of gratitude!!!!
As far as Genius....I think that title will undoubtably go to all of the guys that worked for
Mr Gates and certainly Mr Apple himself.....Steve Jobs. All of the "lesser" known folks
at NASA....IBM and others that were the fore fathers of computer language and com-
puter hardware...........Lots of of folks!!!!!!
Gates never invented the computer, the keyboard, the mouse, the GUI desktop concept, or "anything" like that. Yet for some reason many people really believe that he did.
The actual pioneers of the computer were people like Charles Babbage, Alan Turing, and John von Neumann.
The first computer to use the desktop mouse GUI was the Xerox Alto
Xerox is also where the Windows source code came from, which Gates purchased
The "Microsoft Disk Operating System" or MS-DOS was based on Microsoft's purchase of QDOS, the "Quick and Dirty Operating System" written by Tim Paterson of Seattle Computer Products, for their prototype Intel 8086 based computer.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS-DOS
The person that sold DOS to Gates was on TV in a documentary and I heard what he said, he wished he would have taken 1% of the company instead of cash.
I owned a Z-80 and used CPM a little.
They all took ideas from each other, Gates just knew what to do with them
the children should not suffer for the mistakes of the parents, but they do.
and we are a compassionate society, do you really want to step over people begging in the streets?