I read in a newspaper that Bill Gates is not the one who made up windows, and that it was some other guy, I can't thinkof his name right now though. But do you think that is true?
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I read in a newspaper that Bill Gates is not the one who made up windows, and that it was some other guy, I can't thinkof his name right now though. But do you think that is true?
IIRC, Microsoft and Apple both took Xerox's example and created GUI operating systems (Been a while since I read about it... I think perhaps Apple bought Xerox's system...don't recall exactly).
In any case, there were a team of developers for Microsoft who designed windows. By that time Gates was just the man in charge, not a developer.
Are you thinking of this?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History...user_interface
So basicly everybody got the idea from everbody. Sortof?
Well, he didn't write DOS, which Windows originally revolved around.
Good point.
>Well, he didn't write DOS, which Windows originally revolved around.
Most of their stuff is from acqusitians(sp)
Basically all he actually wrote was BASIC.
(I think.)
Yeah, Bill Gates wrote BASIC with Paul Allen I believe. The GUI originated from Xerox PARC --> Apple --> Microsoft Windows. Apple sues Microsoft for their GUI relativity, but Apple loses.Quote:
Originally Posted by elnerdo
As time went on for Microsoft, there came a lot of Microsofties that came up with ideas and programmed a lot. Bill Gates was just the business coordinator and the guy that made sure everyone at Microsoft was working as hard as they can to pull through the projects.
So basicly Gates just came into the matter becouse he had the bucks to do it?
Not really that so much, but he was smart enough to do it correctly. It's not like Xerox and Apple are/were rinkydink little companies.
But a regular person couldn't come in and done what he did, could they have?
You mean like some random guy off the street? Probably not. Gates obviously isn't some random person, though. I don't think he was what you'd call loaded at that point in time.
Umm...wasn't Bill Gates a "regular person"? Bill Gates is the cocreator of Microsoft, that's it.
Right, but he was obviously knowledgable enough to know how to market it and work with what he could.
But it was a very memory-efficient copy of BASIC.Quote:
Originally Posted by elnerdo
Actually, Bill Gates was an extremely talented young man, highly intelligent too.
Yeah. That's why I like Bill Gates :) Not everyone who's skilled in technology could have the same luck as he had, randomly. He's got talent in business and marketing.
Bill Gates was born into a wealthy family, but he lived like a middle class citizen. He ate pizza all of the time, and tango mix. He is a genius in fact, he wanted to become a great mathematician. When he went to Harvard he realized he wasn't the greatest, and thus thought it was pointless to become a mathematician since he wasn't going to be the best. Gates is a very competitive guy and doesn't lose, so when you mix that with a programming genius, business skills that he has read from his business magazines, intelligence, max drive, and tango he can do whatever he wants! In this case he created a monster corporation named Microsoft.
That pretty much says it all.
His parents were lawyers - always helpful in business.
There's a good movie aobut the young Bill Gates called pirates of silicon valley, it's worth watching.
I think his dad was a lawyer and his mom (Mary Gates) was a community worker of some sort.
I don't agree with everything that Microsoft does, but Bill Gates is a genius - if not a business mastermind. So he deserves some credit - don't hate him because he actually made it in life. Not just anyone could have pulled off what he did. In fact other 'bigger' companies at the time of the birth of the PC could have been where he is today....but they simply dropped the ball and didn't jump on the PC bandwagon until it was too late.
There were a lot more people out there who could have programmed a better OS and probably could have programmed better.....but the fact is that they didn't. It's not just luck that put Gates where he is today.
It's not the inventor who gets rich, but the one who can capitalize on the invention.
Fixed for you :pQuote:
Originally Posted by Bubba
BASIC was created by a couple of professors from Dartmouth when Bill Gates was all of 8 years old.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BASIC_programming_language
Is Gates even the CEO anymore?
No, Steve Ballmer is.
"William (Bill) H. Gates is chairman and chief software architect of Microsoft Corporation" -- his Web page.