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That's what I love about good ole Billy Gates. He is no dummy.

 

He realizes that Mac hardware and software is attractive. So why not say that, especially since his software, WINDOWS, can run on a MAC.

 

He is one smart cookie.

That's what I love about good ole Billy Gates. He is no dummy.

 

He realizes that Mac hardware and software is attractive. So why not say that, especially since his software, WINDOWS, can run on a MAC.

 

He is one smart cookie.

 

Trust me its not the So Called Mac Hardware is Attractive. :D

and someone tell me whats wrong with Apples front page what kind of message does that give you.

now that Bill is no longer the head programmer he doesnt have to take the full responsibly of the {censored} windows might turn out to be - he knows that he has to develop stuff for the mac because the mac can never die

and because he and steve jobs were roommates and bill totally owes steve lol

Isnt this a very old quote by Bill Gates?

 

EDIT:

 

Yup

The next generation of interesting software will be done on the Macintosh, not the IBM PC.

 

* BusinessWeek, 26 November 1984

 

Found it Here

 

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Bill_Gates

Umm Steve Jobs and Bill Gates were never Roommates. In fact they were in different Universities altogether. Bill Gates had Steve Balmer and Paul Allen as his room mates.

 

 

Actually Steve Jobs owes Bill big time, AFAIK Bill Gates helped Steve get back into Apple and bring the company back up.

Actually Steve Jobs owes Bill big time, AFAIK Bill Gates helped Steve get back into Apple and bring the company back up.

 

What alternative reality did you pull that out of? Bill didn't help Steve get back into Apple. Apple asked him to come back and to bring NeXT technology with him so they could use it to develop OS X. The Apple-Microsoft deal didn't happen until about a year later, and it really wasn't as significant, monetarily, as people make it out to be. It probably accounted for less than 10% of Apple's net worth at the time.

I think uc is referring to the when steve jobs announced that apple will be forming a temp ms partnership.

 

 

Yes, I know that is what he was talking about, but his "facts" were a little off. Personally, I think that your link is a "must watch" for anyone who only knows about that deal from Pirates of Silicon Valley or from what they heard or read on some internet forum. It dispels some of the myths about it.

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