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Some really amazing quotes in there including some off the cuff observations that became truly prescient: "If, for some reason, we make some giant mistakes and
by delackner 16y ago
Some really amazing quotes in there including some off the cuff observations that became truly prescient:
"If, for some reason, we make some giant mistakes and IBM wins, my personal feeling is that we are going to enter sort of a computer Dark Ages for about 20 years."
iPhone, OS X growing like wild today. About... 20 years after he said that. And Mac OS 9 (yes, the mac also started to suck), Windows 3.1, Windows 95, Windows XP, Windows Vista, what better description than a dark age.
- patio11 16y agowhat better description than a dark age. The largest, fastest, most important rollout of technology in the history of mankind. Seriously.
- sudont 16y agoYeah, but .NET, IE6 and a lack of any UNIX underpinnings scares a lot of us. It was pretty impressive, though.
- erikpukinskis 16y agoActually, what scared me most was things like changing file formats and protocols to make their competitors' software incompatible and using their massive wealth to drive competitors out of business. .NET, IE6, and Win32 aren't the most wonderful technologies in the world, but they're certainly not the reason for the "Dark Ages". And re: patio12's point: Microsoft presided over a huge, fast, and successful technological expansion... it's just that it would've been bigger, faster, and more successful if they hadn't had such a "break their kneecaps" style of business strategy.