How do you think that Mr.Bill Gates has played the best role in developing Computer Technology?
We all know that Mr.Gates has founded MICROSOFT. Do you believe that he is the cause for the invention af all the other Operating Systems like Linux,Mac etc…. What would be there in our life without his contribution on Computers. Do you think that he is the main cause for use to communicate from one corner to other corner of the world in no time. Do you think that he is the cause for the Millions of people’s Livelihood as they work on computers and earn? What more should we expect from the great personalities like him? Feel free to post your Views. Post them in a brief and relevent manner.
THANKING YOU AND Mr.BILL GATES.
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Well, Gates didn’t invent the first OS. A basic form of Linux was already widely in use before Windows ever came along. Gates surely did a tremendous job at managing a humongous computer business and furthering the computer industry to high levels. I would not put the entire success of computers solely on Gates though. If it wasn’t him, someone else surely would have come along. Computers would exist today without Bill Gates.
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he’s a money making wh0re. Although unix has been around long before windows, Without him people would probably be using unix/linux aot more, which would get developed more… and be alot better than what windows is
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“In 1980 IBM, which dominated the computer hardware business, decided to build a desktop personal computer. It needed an operating system. Microsoft did not have one. True to form, when IBM failed to strike a deal with Digital Research – which did have one – Gates offered to fill the gap. He then licensed a system from Seattle Computer Products for $56,000 and IBM shipped it as PC-DOS. It turned out to be the most profitable deal in history.”
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IBM left their brains back in Boca Raton Florida when negotiating a deal with Bill Gates for their Disk Operating System (DOS). Bill Gates didn’t even have a DOS, but he convinced IBM he was almost finished with one. (Another element of business Genius seems to be being a pathological liar). Perhaps it had something to do with the President of IBM telling the small team creating the PC to “see Mary Gates son Bill” that influenced them to be blind. Or that IBM had just gotten out of a huge lawsuit with the Department of Justice about being a monopoly, and so they wanted to outsource something. Or that IBM didn’t think that Microcomputers were going anywhere, and they wanted to make a lame one to try to sell more mainframes. But for whatever reasons, they made a deal where they’d license DOS from Bill, but Bill got to keep the rights to everything and sell it to anyone else he wanted. So another secret to success if find a rich (but dumb) sugar Daddy that’s willing to finance you, pay you to develop a product for yourself, and let you borrow the biggest name in the business (IBM’s) for your own success.
“Microsoft then bought DOS off someone else (Seattle Computings’ Quick-and-Dirty OS, QDOS). This product was actually a cheap rip-off (clone) product of a friend of Gates (Gary Kildalls’ CP/M), and Bill knew it. They had actually had a gentlemen’s agreement; that Bill Gates wouldn’t do Operating Systems, and Gary Kildall wouldn’t do languages. Also Seattle Computing was mislead on the value of the contract, and the intent of it’s usage, and sold cheap for $50,000 (a fraction of what it was worth). But therein lies another part of Genius; the lack of integrity/scruples, and stumbling on multiple opportunities.”
Around the same time as IBM was getting into the microcomputer business, a guy, named Dan Bricklin, created VisiCalc; the world’s first “Killer App”. VisiCalc was the first spreadsheet for computers. Basically a spreadsheet allowed for business people to lay out numbers into columns and make the computer add them up for you, enabling it to do all sorts of wonderful things (for accountants and business people). It was just a common sense version of an electronic ledger or columnar sheet. But VisiCalc was so popular, that it not only sold itself by the tons, but people bought computers (Apple][‘s) just to run VisiCalc on. VisiCalc revolutionized Microcomputers and brought them from hobby devices into many more businesses and far more homes — and seriously contributed to the success of Apple.
Not only did Bill Gates not invent this revolution, but Dan Bricklin went to Microsoft (Bill Gates), as well as Apple Computers, and asked them to sell the package for him. Gates didn’t think it would sell. At least Apple had a lame excuse; they were in the hardware business; but Bill sold software. You seldom hear that Bill Gates turned down what was the most revolutionary Application in the history of Microcomputers.
Why innovate when you can steal? Later Microsoft ripped off the design and undercut the VisiCalc (and the copies of it), using the profits from DOS and Languages to subsidize himself and starve out everyone else. Sadly, they did this because Apple asked them to, and gave them computers and help to break into the Application market. Apple did this because they wanted support for their new computer (the Macintosh), and Apple didn’t want to compete with their software developers. Microsoft had a big name, and it leant credibility, and seemed like a good idea at the time. (Did I mention silly partners seems to be a secret of Microsoft success?).