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Geek Culture / Bill Gates to Relinquish Duties at Microsoft in 2008

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Arkheii
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Posted: 18th Jun 2006 08:48
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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,199710,00.html

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Sunflash
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Posted: 18th Jun 2006 09:18
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That sucks...

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Wandering Swordsman
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The question is, will this create a better OS?
Or, one fraught with bad OSness...

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ionstream
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Posted: 18th Jun 2006 10:07
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Oh noes, teh bill gates is crunching time!

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Jess T
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Posted: 18th Jun 2006 10:11
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'tis good that he's putting his countless billions to a very good cause, though!

With Bill stepping down, it wont mean that Microsoft will all of a sudden change... They're doing so damned well, why would they?

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BearCDPOLD
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I suppose we'll have to stop knocking on him now that he's focusing on charity . Interesting.


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Dave J
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Posted: 18th Jun 2006 11:42
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He just wants to monopolise the charity market, now.


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indi
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Posted: 18th Jun 2006 11:44
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more users for his OS cynic!

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Killswitch
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Posted: 18th Jun 2006 12:02
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Quote: "Bill Gates to Relinquish Duties"


We all have to go sometime - I didn't realise someone could hold it that for that long!

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TDP Enterprises
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Posted: 18th Jun 2006 16:05
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I was playing poker with some friends when this story came on CNN. And in all-seriousness my friend goes "If I were him, I woulda retired 30 years ago."

But yeah ive got nothign against Gates, blaming him for security holes in windows is like blaming Bush for holes in levies in New Orleans. I think hes had a wonderful career and i admire him for giving so much to charity. And i agree that i dont think microsoft is going to change a whole lot when hes gone.

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Oddmind
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Posted: 18th Jun 2006 16:57
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as funny as this sounds i dont link bill gates with M$ anymore...

I think hes a great man and I have serious other thoughts about his operating system that he probably didnt even code taht much of. Its a wonderfulconcept and has helped billions of people so its not his fault Windows sucks XD.

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SirFire
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Posted: 18th Jun 2006 17:10
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*puts on tinfoil hat*

I think this is a publicity stunt to raise the approval rating of Microsoft, and hence improve sales of Vista.

*takes hat back off*

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EddieB
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Posted: 18th Jun 2006 17:24
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*steels sir fire's hat*

Yeah, Why would he retire just before vista is release? LOL

*takes off the hat, and passes back to sir fire*
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Dazzag
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Quote: "Yeah, Why would he retire just before vista is release? LOL"
Very funny. In reality about the same time as the release of the obvious SP1 to fix all the bugs. When I say "all", obviously I mean the massive amount of obvious bugs. SP2 will fix the more serious bugs. Which is to say none of the ones that will cripple your bank account or network That will be fixed in emergency patches that they pull out of their a**e in 2010.

Cheers

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Jeku
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Posted: 19th Jun 2006 20:10
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Actually, Bill and Melinda Gates have donated over 20 billion dollars to charity, so he's been quite the philanthropist for a long time.

I read that 1 in 10 people that get polo get their cure paid for by him. Really great man if I say so myself.

Gates for President?


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Hawkeye
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Posted: 19th Jun 2006 20:39
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Quote: "Gates for President?"

*insert sarcy comment here*


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Hobgoblin Lord
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Posted: 19th Jun 2006 22:45
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Quote: "I read that 1 in 10 people that get polo get their cure paid for by him."


Do you mean the disease Polio or are all these people infected with a desire to get up on a horse and whack a ball with a mallet. Perhaps they can't help but buy Ralph Loren stuff.

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Megaton Cat
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Posted: 19th Jun 2006 23:04 Edited at: 19th Jun 2006 23:05
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We'll miss you Billy - this one's for you!

Now it's time to make some monnaaaayy! Mooonay.


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Seppuku Arts
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Posted: 20th Jun 2006 00:51
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Quote: "The question is, will this create a better OS? "


Actually the problems people endure in Windows is not due to Billy, but the actual people that made it.

Its good to know that there are big rich billionaire corporation guys giving up their job as CEO to fund them selves a Charity, god on ya Bill

Quote: "Really great man if I say so myself."


He is, although I have had my fights with Windows and may have blamed him sometimes

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BearCDPOLD
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Posted: 20th Jun 2006 02:55
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Quote: "Gates for President? "


Yes, then we will no longer be in deficit. *cymbal hit*


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Steve J
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@bear: Haha. Thats greatXD

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BatVink
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Quote: "I think this is a publicity stunt to raise the approval rating of Microsoft, and hence improve sales of Vista"


No, it's so that the share price doesn't plunge by making a short-timed announcement. If he said he was retiring tomorrow, the stock market would want to protect themselves against him selling a huge chunk of shares and the price would plummet in minutes.



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Luigi Mario
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if Bill Gates were president we wouldn't have to worry about sex scandals, look at his haircut!(zing.) Also, there are always going to be problems with windows. No one can make a perfect operating system. To ensure a flawless windows experience, you'd probably have to know quite a bit of low level code before touching anything. Don't bite the hand that feeds you. something tells me that none of us are on linux.

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Jess T
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Luigi,

Sorry to say, but at least a few of us here use Linux

Myself, and NeoFish for 2... There's others who I dare not mention...

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at least if Bill Gates was president, you'd have a smart president, and as he is leading a charity and supplies money into health, I'm sure he'd do better than Bush who has an Oil company, heck even if he still had Microsoft in his rule, it wouldn't make any sense what so ever to raid countries for hard drives.

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Quote: "it wouldn't make any sense what so ever to raid countries for hard drives."


You never know, those russians could have weapons of mass memory deletion...

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Conspiracy Theorists would suggest that the next war will be won through Weapons Of Mass Disruption. That is, scrambling signals, destroying data and generally disrupting communication channels and power sources.

So maybe Bill is your man.



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indi
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Posted: 22nd Jun 2006 12:23
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and a small handful of us still have atari 2600's

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Lost in Thought
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Posted: 22nd Jun 2006 12:36
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Quote: "He just wants to monopolise the charity market, now."


Cool. That'll be less for me to worry about. He has enough to do almost all of it.

In any case I would have sold out and retired long ago if I was him

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and if he was president of the us if anyone tried to assanate him. all the worlds commputer nerds will come after the person who did it. is he safe or what.

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Quote: "all the worlds commputer nerds "

Thats what i thought about this whole Jack Thomspon issue too...and so far all of you have dissapointed me.

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Quote: "and if he was president of the us if anyone tried to assanate him. all the worlds commputer nerds will come after the person who did it. is he safe or what."


sound locical except for a few things.
a) computer nerds would be to busy looking at porn.
b) and if they did what would they do?
c) probably the highest percentage of people on earth who hate gates are computer nerds.
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Steve J
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@Hobgoblin: No, they arent nerds, they are wannnabe geeks. They dont understand computers enough to not hate gates.


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