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Offline mm
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« on: December 11, 2001, 10:24:25 AM »
quote from anonymous

"all gates is is a brilliant business man
lets look at ms\'s great inovations

Close Combat

Popular game purchased from Atomic Games

Flight Simulator

Purchased from the Bruce Artwick Organisation

Age of Empires

Collabaration with Ensemble studios(Gopal R S)

FrontPage

Microsoft\'s HTML editor was purchased from Vermeer Technologies in 1996

FoxPro

This database application came along with Microsoft\'s purchase of Fox Software in 1986

Internet Explorer

Desperate to play catch-up in the fast-moving Internet world Microsoft licensed code from Spyglass Inc one of the two licensees of the

original Mosaic code base in 1995 and called it MSIE Microsoft then proceeded to distribute MSIE for free denying Spyglass substantial

royalties for their key contribution to the product

MS-DOS

The original Microsoft cash cow this CPM clone then called Q-DOS was purchased from the Seattle Computer Company in 1981 Microsoft then

proceeded to thwart Seattle Computer\'s license rights to the product The tiny company sued Microsoft and prevailed in court

Object Linking Environment OLE

Microsoft settled a suit with Wang Labs over patent infringement code portions of OLE which is also the heart of Microsoft\'s ActiveX

PowerPoint

This presentation software package was renamed and re branded after Microsoft\'s purchase of Forethought Inc in 1987

SQL Server

This important database product is based on code purchased from Sybase in 1988

Visual Basic

Ruby the foundation for Microsoft\'s highly important Visual Basic product was purchased from Cooper Software in 1991

Visual C

Microsoft purchased the Lattice C code compiler which became Visual C Microsoft\'s software development environment

Visual SourceSafe

Purchased from OneTree Software Shortly after OneTree\'s SourceSafe was released Microsoft preannounced a similar application called Microsoft Delta which failed to sell Microsoft then purchased OneTree and renamed SourceSafe as Microsoft Visual SourceSafe

Windows

Technologies used in Windows multitasking came to Microsoft with their purchase of Dynamical Systems in 1986 Portions of the interface were licensed from Apple Computer also in 1986

XENIX

Microsoft\'s version of Unix was actually written under contract by the Santa Cruz Operation(SCO)"


wow...
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« Reply #1 on: December 11, 2001, 10:40:45 AM »
lol mm

you forgot to add that the xbox controller is a rip-off form the DC one ;)
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« Reply #2 on: December 11, 2001, 02:57:43 PM »
No one still seems to know why they make so much money if they can\'t come up with their own ideas. ;)
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« Reply #3 on: December 11, 2001, 03:04:38 PM »
No-one realises that someone has to go in behind enemy lines and "aquire" them idea\'s,.......

all i have to say is BAD Bill Bad your last check bounced !

And expect to see Microsoft RPG online highly modeled on Final fansasy 11.

Bloody Square they upped their security sine the last time I was in, now I have German shepherd bites all over my Bum.

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« Reply #4 on: December 11, 2001, 03:28:38 PM »
Bill Gates is a mastermind, he obviously doesnt care if its his ideas or not he is a f*cking billionaire, do u think he cares, i wouldnt, im saying he is cool but he aint no dummy
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« Reply #5 on: December 11, 2001, 03:37:28 PM »
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Bill Gates is a mastermind, he obviously doesnt care if its his ideas or not he is a f*cking billionaire, do u think he cares, i wouldnt, im saying he is cool but he aint no dummy


I was just going to say he is VERY Smart and not TOTALLY inteligent.

Smart in the way he obtains everything
and Not inteligent, for not developing his own from scratch.
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« Reply #6 on: December 11, 2001, 05:31:06 PM »
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Originally posted by ooseven


I was just going to say he is VERY Smart and not TOTALLY inteligent.

Smart in the way he obtains everything
and Not inteligent, for not developing his own from scratch.


Its all good.
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« Reply #7 on: December 11, 2001, 05:51:56 PM »
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Originally posted by mm

Age of Empires



That\'s good enuff for me :)
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« Reply #8 on: December 11, 2001, 09:44:26 PM »
Bill Gates is an incredible business man. He knows what is going to be the next big thing and makes sure he is in on it before it gets really popular. If their is something wrong with that then their is something wrong with almost every Founder of every company. Gates just has a better batting percentage than the other losers. He may not be one of the most popular people but he IS one of the greatest of our time.
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« Reply #9 on: December 11, 2001, 10:05:02 PM »
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He may not be one of the most popular people but he IS one of the greatest of our time.



He\'s rich, but I fail to see him as a great man
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« Reply #10 on: December 12, 2001, 02:31:27 AM »
I\'m with ddaryl. He\'s a nobody to me.
He has the oppotunity to be the greatest man alive. He could give away 95% of his money to charity and still be filthy rich. If he did something like that then he would be the happiest man alive. Think of all the lives he could save. Who gives a **** about getting a new operating system when you could be saving millions of lives. That would make a person truley happy.
He\'s just greedy.
Go listen to "Soon Forget" by Pearl Jam. Eddie wrote that song about Bill Gates. Money doesnt bring happiness
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« Reply #11 on: December 12, 2001, 02:37:03 AM »
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Money doesnt bring happiness

If money doesn\'t bring happiness, poverty sure as hell won\'t. ;)
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« Reply #12 on: December 13, 2001, 03:35:24 PM »
He is one of the greatest business men of our time, you cannot deny that. If you can, then I suggest you take the computer you are using to post on this forum with and throw it out the window and move to a place where you live in a cave, due to the fact that Gates ushered in the era of home computer use to the tenth degree and the software industry (he was one of the first to speak out about having to pay for software, instead of "borrowing" aka stealing it). If it wasn\'t for Gates the computer industry and in large the enviroment we live in would not be the way it is today. Bill Gates is a brilliant business man who jumps on things that are going to be popular and uses them for his own company. What is wrong with that? All companies do it, Gates just does it more and better than the rest.


As for the comments about how he could save lives and so on, I truly doubt most people in his position would give 95% of their wealth to charity. Not to mention he has donated money to charitys countless times and if I am not mistaken even set up a charity fund (I may be wrong on that one). Don\'t expect someone to give 95% of their wealth they worked for to countless strangers.


By the way - before I get accused of being a MsWhore, I don\'t even use Windows 90 percent of the time, I use an iMac and I detest the Xbox at this current time.
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« Reply #13 on: December 13, 2001, 03:58:11 PM »
As you might say mm,

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« Reply #14 on: December 13, 2001, 04:10:25 PM »
I know that he gives a lot of money to charity. But about my comments about him giving up 95% of his wealth, he would still be filty rich. I know that most people in his situation wouldnt do it, but you would have the opportunity of being the happiest person alive
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