My 15 minutes with Bill Gates, and how the Web was born

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So back up your claims

OK Josh, you are claiming in your "piece" (a good word for
it, btw) that Gates had the foresight to see that the
Internet/WWW was going to be the next big thing. You are
either wrong, or you can't write a convincing piece. I still
stand by my point: BG was THE man at Microsoft at the
time. He could make all the employees stand on their
heads to code if he wanted. He ruled with an iron fist at
that time. Why then, if he knew the 'net/WWW was going to
be big, did he and his collective not do Jack S. until every
other company beat him to the punch? Is it because he
was waiting until the time was right? No. Is it because he
and Microsoft had better things to do? Doubt it. Is it
because he really didn't have a clue about the net, and
that your admittedly brief exchange with him was only BG
showing his amazing foresight in your 20/20 hindsight
vision looking back 25 years? Yep.

I'm sorry if you are deluded into believing your own
writings that somehow BG knew this was it. I have no
doubt that you were there back then. But guess what - a
whole lot of people, myself included, were around back
then too. We all can recall pretty vividly how BG and
Microsoft entirely missed the boat on this one, and it took
years of time, lots of money, and a whole lot of illegal
practices to get his first IE out the door to try to compete.

You need to take off the rose colored glasses that you are
looking in the past with and perhaps take a memory
refresher, my friend. The story you describe makes for a
good exit story, but it is far from accurate.

Posted by: winski   Posted on: 06/30/08 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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