Bill Gates is undoubtedly a clever man, but his vision has not always been clear. His brute force business tactics and the corporate machinery of Microsoft that surround him. Of course, he is soon to bow out (2008) and leave the MS machinery chug along.

No one will need more than 637Kb of memory for a personal computer’ - Bill Gates

More Bill Gates quotes and blunders..

He was also slow in realising the potential of the Internet, even making comments that the internet wouldn’t have much impact on computing, and with Windows market share of the desktop they felt untouchable. At a time, circa ‘96 when it was thought that Netscape were the future of the internet, with visions of a browser-based desktop running the show on top of the host OS, even though at that time bandwidth constraints on the average internet user were quite limiting for such applications. But of course MS threw everything it had at developing new internet friendly software, primarily Internet Explorer, re-affirmed their monopoly further on the desktop market.

Linux is certainly a threat to Microsoft in the server market, but is still a long way behind in the desktop arena. The visions of the past have now become reality, or closer at least, with the growth of the internet and wide availability of broadband the browser desktop is taking shape. These new applications are what people are using, and this is the new cash cow MS would like to milk.

We use Linux here at Blue Star (Debian and Fedora primarily). It is reliable and stable, unlike MS products for servers. A better built system and for free. I’d reccommend anyone to get one of the live cd distributions such as knoppix and give it a try!

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