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Re: How did Bill Gates get popular? It started with Xbox

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Re: How did Bill Gates get popular? It started with Xbox

kris — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 21:59:28 -0000

whooo i never knew that bill gates had anything to do with the x-box, but the most suprising thing was that people were not likein this product.

Re: How did Bill Gates get popular? It started with Xbox

Willt — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:53:59 -0000

well it could be all the charity work he's been doing too, and dont even try to knock that part of his life Steve Jobs fan boys. Most people who are ambitous and into making money usually die doing it. The guy was nice enough to step back smell the roses then work on helping others.

Re: How did Bill Gates get popular? It started with Xbox

Blades — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 13:12:59 -0000

Good praises, however, it wasn't the first time that people lined up to buy his products at late night.

I remember the release of Win95 (back in the day). The new, promised laden, bug laden, but good "Re-start" of the Windows OS. I remember people some people that were buying Win95, who really didn't know why they were buying it. The marketing along with the rolling stones song, helped launch it's popularity. Since then, no other MS OS has garnered such attention. It's nice to see a successful American company be eye to eye with the Japanese market. Competition. That's what keeps this world turning.

To truBlue:

Apple is all fluff with older hardware. Case in point there desktops. Apple isn't all that, they look good, but there support of a product is horrible. As least MS gives 5 years of support. During that 5 years Apple brings out 4 different models of Ipod, with very little upgrade. And quickly drops support of older models. Thats not innovation, that is saturation. But to each there own, i suppose.

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Re: How did Bill Gates get popular? It started with Xbox

truBlue — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 10:11:26 -0000

Good riddance. Not many in IT credit Gates & Co with anything other than holding up the entire industry by their monopolistic practices. Considered the 'Corporate O.J.' , they really did get a way with murdering so many innovative ideas from smaller companies and individuals. Thank God for Unix, Linux, Apple and Sony. These companies keep innovating, not like Microsoft.

Re: How did Bill Gates get popular? It started with Xbox

Matt A.* — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 01:56:30 -0000

But yes, good article over all. You need a better clincher though.

Re: How did Bill Gates get popular? It started with Xbox

Matt A.* — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 01:55:21 -0000

That's your ending to the article? Come on! Conclude with a better line than that for God's sake!

Re: How did Bill Gates get popular? It started with Xbox

deantak — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 01:19:12 -0000

Thanks Michael. Ron, I think the blue screen of death kind of took away a little bit of that popularity among Bill's software users.

Re: How did Bill Gates get popular? It started with Xbox

Michael Brown — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 19:47:01 -0000

Nice write-up Dean.

Re: How did Bill Gates get popular? It started with Xbox

Ron Toi — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 19:16:30 -0000

Bill Gates did not get popular with Xbox alone. Although it added to his public image, especially from a more youthful perspective, Bill Gates gained popularity by creating the most dominant software company the world may ever see. Duh. Although Microsoft's products may have never been the best in their field, Bill Gates is a wizard for convincing application developers in the 80s and early 90s to come on board to develop for windows.... www.readtheanswer.com/index...