Bill Gates on C-SPAN2--sounds a lot like Alan Greenspan. Blames the victim.

[European Socialist]

Same old crap--trade is good and USA failing at education. Yeah, there is some truth to it. But, educated people can't find work and median income has been falling for years due to bad trade policies.

[Deja Q]

1. If that guy is so good, how come all he can do is buy other peoples' businesses anymore?

And what he buys, turns to crap! OneCare was not, at the start, a Microsoft-borne product... they bought an antivirus firm and dicked around with it - and lo and behold, guess which product bottomed the list of antivirus programs? OneCare!!!

What else is new?

http://antivirus.about.com/od/antivirusvendors/a/windowsonecare.htm

Shortly after the PC Satisfaction beta began, Microsoft announced their acquisition of GeCAD’s RAV – a Romanian-based antivirus company. Less publicly, Microsoft had also acquired the Israeli start-up Pelican Security, a company possessing technology to tag and monitor Internet-borne executables and Office documents. And in December 2004 Microsoft announced their acquisition of Giant Software – an announcement quickly followed by a public beta of Microsoft AntiSpyware.


http://anti-virus-software-review.toptenreviews.com/
The BEST products analyzed.

Their review of OneCare. It's funny how they mention it's in beta AND that it comes with a firewall. Huh? How about the one integrated in XP, which XP SP2 is the oldest platform they bother to support anymore??? :spray:

[European Socialist]

2. Yup, He's more mediocre than he gets credit for in the media.

[The_Casual_Observer]

3. Gates would be nothing if mama didn't get him the IBM gig.

His lessons-in-life advice & opinions are as worthless as those proffered by a lottery winner.

[razors edge]

4. IBM? didn't they make the punch cards

the Germans used to track the victims of the holocaust?

Scum does float now don't it?