Bill Gates launched Tech-ed Developers in Orlando, Florida today by announcing this was his last public speech as a full time employee (FTE) in his role of Microsoft Chairman. He will now transition to a part time employee and full time at his foundation.Gates's focus was on a change in interaction. Over the years there has been no change in interaction as users use a keyboard and mouse. Microsoft research has been working on software advances and hardware power to interact with applications. Gates described this as natural user interface and detailed the small glimpse last week of Windows 7 inbuilt touch support. Natural interface has a dramatic impact and Microsoft is excited that this decade this will go mainstream and that the company is there providing built-in support in the Windows platform.
Gates then switched focus onto IE8. IE8 beta 2 will be ready in August and 20 more languages will be available a month after that.
Silverlight version 2 beta 2 is in the final stages and will be released soon.
Next up the latest and greatest robot invention named "ballmer bot" was demonstrated and it could even throw eggs!
I agree He doesn't need to do it.
Maybe our government should take care of that, what with all the income tax that he pays. 3rd World citizens aren't so 'fortunate'.
Maybe our government should take care of that, what with all the income tax that he pays. 3rd World citizens aren't so 'fortunate'.
Talking from 3rd world not-so-poor country (I dont know why spain is located at the 1st anyway), they make charity here to clean their faces of their fascist actions with local polices... you dont need that there (YET)
i'm from germany. my government of does way too much for 3rd-worlders (imo of course). i'd rather see the charity payments coming from private citizens. this entire thing is off-topic, but if you look at africa and the payments they received since 1990, you will see that the help from the 1st-world almost exactly matches the money their governments spent on weapons and wars (source in german: http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,510917,00.html). if the politicians there want wars, they should have to explain their people why they have to starve or their kids can't go to school.
Last edited by pippi123 on 04 Jun 2008 - 10:09
I don't like Steve. I don't like the other Steve too.
Ballmer at least had the courage to duck behind a table when he had the eggs thrown at him.
If they have picked a new Chairman, it is the deepest, darkest secret of all time. AND the speculator class has not said word one about who that replacement might be.
The role of Chief Software Architect was planned as a two-year transition...he didn't simply hand Ozzie the keys.
Dak, if you are going to post a comment that Mr. Gates said he would resign his chair in 2008, please include a link to proof, cuz nobody else is aware of this.
Well it's his company I guess he can change his mind, huh?
The big bummer was that we'll have to wait till August for IE8 Beta 2.
Oh well, Beta 1 still works great for me, but in IE7 emulation mode.
Office 2007 is still good--massively bloated, but good. MS's operating systems though... I don't know WTF has been going on in that division, it's out of control. They have to stop adding junk to Windows, and they have to dump legacy support. Run the legacy stuff in a VM! That would eliminate many of Windows' problems and MS might stop losing so many users to OS X, Linux, and the consoles.
Most stupid post ever.
MS does not compete against consoles (or itself). That took away all the credibility from your post
I never used a computer responsive like my Mac. That was the best move I ever did (about computers).
The operating system division of microsoft should really get an overhaul.
The scanner and the printer I have didn't work on Vista (because there was no driver), however they works perfectly on Mac OS 10.5.x
They dump legacy support on things they shouldn't (peripherals like printer or scanners) but keep compatibility with (very) old softwares that can be run in virutal environment. This is strange.
Edit : To sum up my thoughts : Apple implements "Plug and Play", Microsoft implements "Plug and Pray"
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You sir, are clever. Just becuase a mac was better suited to your needs doesn't make you smarter/better than any windows user. Before you say you never said you were smarter/better, you don't have to. Your post smacks of arrogance.
It's one thing to buy a mac and use it and love it. It's another thing to assume that you've gained some elite status because you don't use windows anymore.
It's one thing to buy a mac and use it and love it. It's another thing to assume that you've gained some elite status because you don't use windows anymore.
Uh, where did he show elitism?
I've already chosen
downhill quickly? That's like saying we better find a new planet to live on because the sun is dying
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