Thanks to Steve Sinchak of Tweak Vista who uploaded these 2 videos of Bill Gates appearing on the Daily Show to talk with Jon Stewart about the launch of Windows Vista.
Video: Bill Gates on the Daily Show - Part 1
Video: Bill Gates on the Daily Show - Part 1
Last edited by Jacki Boi on 30 Jan 2007 - 17:06
"Did you have any pet?
"What was its name?"
haha
Radish™
Jon - "What if i don't know how to use this?"
Bill - "Call me." great response
Shame about the out of sync audio on part 2.
Yeah, with Windows Vista out today, he's probably the busiest person on earth right now, so I don't really hold that against him. Stewart and Colbert had fun with it afterwards anyways =P
~Weed
Good interview though. Makes him seem a lot more cool and casual than he is normally made out to be.
Good interview though. Makes him seem a lot more cool and casual than he is normally made out to be.
Obviously, this means that Bill Gates does NOT watch the Daily Show. How sad. :|
On most shows, people usually stick around until the show actually ends. Besides, it's not like we're bashing him for it. People just thought it was an awkward moment. Lighten up.
That would be best buy's problem with not ordering them, not MS's
Jon gave gates 100's of cue for him to roll into a nice comical interview. but there were only lame replies.
billyg even rudely walked off the set without talking to Jon or asking "Do i stay for some minutes or go?".
Take off your fanboy glasses ppl.
Jon gave gates 100's of cue for him to roll into a nice comical interview. but there were only lame replies.
billyg even rudely walked off the set without talking to Jon or asking "Do i stay for some minutes or go?".
Take off your fanboy glasses ppl.
Bill Gates/Microsoft bashing is so cool.......can I touch you?
^what he said. He probably spent the rest of the night promoting Vista, it's good to see a more personal/laid back view of him than just a business view. I think the interview was alright, it wasn't special or anything but I certainly don't think it was bad.
That's John Stewart's interview style: He makes jokes. He diverts you from the task of being serious.
If you don't like it, go watch something where they ask serious, hard-hitting questions and they all look like they're trying to crack a walnut with their butt-cheeks. (You know, of course, that now that I've said this the next bit they'll air on the Daily Show will feature someone humorously attempting to actually crack some sort of nut with some collection of butt-cheekage).
As for Bill Gates... you appear to have not read between the lines, young grashopper. Bill Gates has reached the point in his life where he's ready to move on from Microsoft. Why do you think he agreed to do this interview in the first place? It's just another sign that he's moving on from tech word. (Your first clue should have been when he announced his retirement from the tech world a while back. That was easy to miss, though: It was only on every major news media in the world for a few days.) He's trying things that are outside the usually "techie" culture. (Hands up anyone who thinks that publicly appearing on a nationally syndicated comedy/interview show qualifies as usual for a tech-head? Anyone? anyone at all?)
IMHO, I thought this was a good interview because of the fact that it wasn't very serious. I thought it was great that Bill wasn't going on about technical details, which we've already seen on the Live Vista Launch webcast. I'm not saying Bill is boring when he's talking technical, but I think he does it far too often.
I'm not sure whether he was downplaying the upgrades they've made to XP over the last half-decade to make it seem like this is a more substantial upgrade, or downplaying the painfully long development cycle but it seemed a little uncertain. I guess it would have been hard to have it both ways "We've been keeping our old products up to date with patches and upgrades. It took a while but you'll defiantly find X, Y, and Z in Vista are worth it".
Bill Gates was remarkably on-message the whole time: impressive for an interview with John Stewart. For nearly anybody else it would have been 10 minutes of chat about anything but the movie/book/war/product the guest is there for. Good game Bill: well played.
I don't believe he downplayed the development cycle at all. When he mentioned getting direct feedback from 5M beta testers and families around the world, it was a synopsis of a very important point that was made at the initial launch. As a developer who designs software for service management processes and has to deal with the end users, I can certainly appreciate the extended research and development effort put into the Vista product.
Basically, quality programming takes time and I, for one, am glad they didn't rush this to the market before it was ready.
Getting a ton of feedback is one thing, getting worthwhile feedback another, and doing something with that feedback is yet another. With my ~5 hours of playing with Vista I can't say that it lives up to a what I'd expect from a $300, 5-year in the making, multi-billion upgrade. Some of the things I've enountered really do feel like oversites in the interest of getting it out the door on time (as opposed to the design choices that were made early on and will likely never change).
It's probable that you and I have different standards for, and different metrics by which we judge quality.
Getting a ton of feedback is one thing, getting worthwhile feedback another, and doing something with that feedback is yet another. With my ~5 hours of playing with Vista I can't say that it lives up to a what I'd expect from a $300, 5-year in the making, multi-billion upgrade. Some of the things I've enountered really do feel like oversites in the interest of getting it out the door on time (as opposed to the design choices that were made early on and will likely never change).
It's probable that you and I have different standards for, and different metrics by which we judge quality.
I'd say it's more of a half-empty vs. half-full perspective, and expectations. My experience has taught me that quality != perfect, and you can't impliment everything you'd like. No matter how much you want to give the user all the great features they want, at some point the project manager is going to slap you upside the head and tell you to just get it done.
Now, since the original topic had to do with marketing, let me ask you this. Have you ever seen a product that lived up to it's marketing hype?
For all the Bill-bashers: do as much as Bill Gates does on charity, and we'll talk again. For the time being, stfu...
"The one thing I thought was a little shifty was when John called him on the launch time: "5 years ago people were using the abacus". Bill's response "This normally takes 2-5 years" is only true because Vista doubled the previous longest wait between releases."
Vista is no windows 95. They have really done a decent job with this OS. You knew it wasnt going to be written overnight.
lol...
The pets part was the best lmao! oh lord! the rest of my night just got fixed!
BTW, the free copy is an "Upgrade" lol.. cheap Billy!
Oh and the "call me" part too!
those damn 13 year old danish kids.....
haha
ew rude..
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