"Good" software? Duck, and cover!
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| AnonymousCoward Feb 07, 2005 5:32 AM EDT |
Aha! So software is a religion for Bill: "The enthusiasm about how computers, the Internet, and good software can help people is probably as large today as it ever was." The penny just dropped. Anything written by Microsoft is, by definition, "good" software. Anything else is, by definition, "evil" software. Suddenly all of the bulldust raised by Microsoft starts making sense - in an odd way. They're defending their dogma: that their software is "good" and everyone else's is "evil". This is exactly the kind of "football team theology" which brought us the Inquisition. Now we move on to this little gem of evasion on the topic of spam and malware: "SPIEGEL: You want to achieve that single-handedly? "Gates: The bandwidth of problems is enormous. And not only individual companies are facing demands, but our entire industry. In meeting these demands we have to work together with governments and public agencies. Politics has to ensure the legal framework." Not only did he not answer the question, he didn't give the interviewer anywhere to hang the prompt, "So how much are you and Microsoft a part of the problem?" When the interviewer does start to curve that way anyway two questions later, Billy Boy immediately raises the spectre of 9/11. Goodness me, Dodgy Bros Inc could hardly dissemble any more effectively! The whole interview is like that. Something's rotten in the state of Redmond! However, read between the lines and you see what else he's going to be shooting for next, as well as tying as many suckers as possible down to MS-Office as an essential LOB product as possible - which if I was an anti-truster wouldn't be so much ringing alarm bells as air-raid sirens. |
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