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Posted by seandr at 6/5/08 6:52 p.m.

With Ballmer in charge, there'll be no more Microsoft in 10 years either.

Posted by unregistered user at 6/5/08 8:56 p.m.

thanks for your opinion 'seandr'. its too bad that ballmer isn't as successful and all-knowing as you, an obviously accomplished article commenter.

Posted by Carlos Hawes at 6/6/08 8:59 a.m.

I guess Ballmer is taking over the "Outrageous Prediction" job role from Gates as well (examples: 640k ought to be enough for anybody" and "We'll eliminate spam in 2 years.")

Of course there will be newspapers in 10 years! Have you ever tried lining your new puppy's living area with computer monitors??? :)

Posted by unregistered user at 6/6/08 10:05 a.m.

"I guess Ballmer is taking over the "Outrageous Prediction" job role from Gates"

Yep. But thank god. SOMEBODY in this industry needs to think BIG. If we leave it up to google, we'll all be using the google command line to do everything. No thanks.

Posted by Carlos Hawes at 6/6/08 11:02 a.m.

"SOMEBODY in this industry needs to think BIG."

I assume you are saying that Gates and Ballmer think big? That goes against all conventional wisdom in IT that says that MS lets other companies do the big thinking and then come along and steal their ideas.

As an exercise in examining this issue, can anyone think of ONE idea that MS has actually thought of and successfully implemented that some other company didn't think of first (Clippy and MS BOB excluded)?

Posted by seandr at 6/6/08 6:59 p.m.

"thanks for your opinion 'seandr'. its too bad that ballmer isn't as successful and all-knowing as you, an obviously accomplished article commenter."

And thanks for yours.

You don't have to be all knowing to see that Ballmer, wealthy though he may be, is in over his head. As someone who has a stake in Microsoft's success, I guess I feel obliged to share my opinion of his performance.

Posted by unregistered user at 6/7/08 2:23 p.m.

"I guess I feel obliged to share my opinion of his performance"

Again, thank you.

Carlos Hawes, building the pc industry into the behemoth it is... puts Gates right up there with Henry Ford and other elite thinkers/doers of the last 100 years. "A computer on every desk" is, quite simply... the reason nerds like you and I have a job in IT.

Posted by seandr at 6/9/08 8:53 a.m.

"puts Gates right up there with Henry Ford"

No question about it, Bill Gates is the real deal, and he has my thanks for the money he has made me. I only wish he would have groomed a more effective replacement.

Posted by unregistered user at 6/9/08 5:25 p.m.

Ballmer is incorrect. I love laying in bed and reading my papers, all three of them. As I get older, I hate my computer more and more.

Posted by unregistered user at 6/10/08 7:34 a.m.

Again, no examples of anything NEW thought up by gates and company. Personal computers existed before Micorsoft. All MS did was see a sweet deal offered by IBM for an OS and they pounced on it. MS at the time didn't even have the OS that they promised IBM, they bought it shortly afterwards for $50,000. Micorsoft and their dominance of the PC industry are the result of 1)being in the right place at the right time, 2)incredible lack of foresight by IBM and 3)buying or stealing whatever technology they needed to keep the illusion going. There never was any "big thinking" involved. (Except for the fairly novel idea that you could actually charge money for nothing more than bytes on a disk).

Posted by unregistered user at 6/10/08 7:41 a.m.

Addendum:

The realyy big thinkers of the early PC revolution were at XEROX PARC. They are the ones who envisioned many of the technologies that we take for granted on the PC today. The GUI and mouse really had their birth there. Their work was shamelessly lifted by first Apple and then by Microsoft.

The other really big thinker forgeotten today was Gary Kildall of Digital Research who wrote CP/M before MS had even began shopping around to buy the operating system that became DOS.

Posted by unregistered user at 6/10/08 8:36 p.m.

"The realyy big thinkers of the early PC revolution were at XEROX PARC."

I disagree 100%. The big thinkers are the ones that DO SOMETHING WITH THE IDEA. Hell, I can think up a flying car that runs on spit, but if you go and build the thing...

Posted by unregistered user at 6/11/08 8:16 a.m.

XEROX PARC did in fact "build the thing". They didn't "think up" a car flying on spit. They envisioned it, engineered it, developed it, and built it. Their management was too stupid to market it. The not so secret secret is that most of the successful companies in IT aren't successful because they think big; any more than the clever burglar who knows the difference between valuable and costume jewelery when they break in a house.

IT, like science, is built on the shoulder of giants. The problem we have is that the public at large doesn't know the names of the giants you and I stand on. They only know names like Gates and Jobs, neither of whom would probably belong on a list of the 100 top big thinkers in the history of IT (well, Jobs might make it somewhere between 50 and 100 for his intuitive feel for usability and design).

The depth of Gate's thinking can be gauged by the top story on Todd Bishop's Blog this morning, Gates thinks video in the classroom will be big! Gee, THAT took up a lot of Gate's neuron capacity didn't it? Geeze!

Posted by unregistered user at 6/16/08 8:43 p.m.

"Their management was too stupid to market it."

I repeat myself...

"The big thinkers are the ones that DO SOMETHING WITH THE IDEA"

If you don't market it, SELL IT, make a market for it, get customers to know about it and buy it... you didn't DO SOMETHING WITH IT.

To follow-up on my spit-car idea... I can THINK it up, and draw up the plans. But if I stop there, I didn't do jack-crap. If you take my plans, and build it, sell it, make it the standard for the world... then you, my friend, have DONE SOMETHING WITH IT.

Posted by unregistered user at 10/30/08 7:27 a.m.

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