C'mon guys
Ms is NOT the evil empire
also Bill Gates via his foundation has given FAR MORE to this planet than 99% of "Failed Bailed out Banks" that almost every govt has bailed out for some reason or another whatever their electorates have said.
I can't understand why there is so much animosity against BILL GATES -- just look at his bio on google.
OK. I did. To quote Wikipedia - Here's a portion:
Gates stepped down as chief executive officer of Microsoft in January 2000. He remained as chairman and created the position of chief software architect. In June 2006, Gates announced that he would be transitioning from full-time work at Microsoft to part-time work, and full-time work at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. He gradually transferred his duties to Ray Ozzie, chief software architect, and Craig Mundie, chief research and strategy officer. Gates' last full-time day at Microsoft was June 27, 2008. He remains at Microsoft as non-executive chairman.
So who is to blame for Metro if one wants to lay blame? Ray and Graig? Ballmer?
Not bad for a college dropout. BTW: I believe Linda Gates was the one that started the Gates Foundation and Bill, like a good husband, he went along. But none the less it is his, ah hum, their moola.
Steve Jobs that everybody seems to idolize never gave ONE CENT to any charity -- and his personal habits didn't endear him to his co-workers either.
Did you mean Steve the Hippie Yippie? I don't think he did much. I mean he had a few good ideas like using Xerox PARC's mouse. Then he left Apple and threw his money at computer graphics division of Lucasfilm, which was spun off as Pixar. ChaChing! Steve Wozniak was the brains behind the machine. I can't remember the fella's name that taught them both how to market it. Overnight sensation in the Valley! I gotta' hand it to Jobs, though. He did return to Apple and brought them back from near bankruptcy with his Yuppie toys: The iMac, iTunes, iPod, iPhone, iPad, iMe, iMe, and the iMe.
That leads me to my next subject. Location, location, location. Where have we heard that before? Apple in the Valley and M$ in Seattle (Redmond) is a factor.
All the Yuppie photographers, film editors, artists, and so on all bought Macs. Why? They were better at graphics. And the Valley is close to Hollywood where there's an endless pit of $.
Bill Gates' mother was the one that introduced Bill to some IBM execs in Seattle (At her bridge club none the less) which lead him to the PC for big business. Why big business? Because the PCs are number crunchers.
So after all these years, the twain has met in a dual. Who will win? Stay tuned for the next episode.....