Channel 9 Forums - Coffeehouse - The History of Microsoft http://mschnlnine.vo.llnwd.net/d1/Dev/App_Themes/C9/images/feedimage.png Channel 9 Forums - Coffeehouse - The History of Microsoft http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums Channel 9 keeps you up to date with the latest news and behind the scenes info from Microsoft that developers love to keep up with. From LINQ to SilverLight – Watch videos and hear about all the cool technologies coming and the people behind them. http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums en Sat, 25 May 2013 06:55:25 GMT Sat, 25 May 2013 06:55:25 GMT Rev9 7 -7 -1 Coffeehouse - The History of Microsoft Love him or hate him, Bill Gates has been a venerable world-wide business icon for more than three decades, ever since the first mass-produced personal computer debuted in 1981. Gates has consistently been ranked as one of the world's wealthiest men – as well as one of the most controversial founders and CEOs in history – and businesspeople of all stripes have taken their cues from him, using his words and business strategies to help create and grow their own companies.

 

The time when bill Gates born. The time when Microsoft Incorporated. The time when Bill meets Melinda. and the time when Windows born.

Here is the complete timeline of Bill Gates and Microsoft : The History of Microsoft and Bill Gates [Timeline]

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/The-History-of-Microsoft/ac62d7c18de64cb7821ca15a00e637ee#ac62d7c18de64cb7821ca15a00e637ee Sun, 03 Feb 2013 13:58:11 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/The-History-of-Microsoft/ac62d7c18de64cb7821ca15a00e637ee#ac62d7c18de64cb7821ca15a00e637ee Rahul Vijay Manekari 7 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/Rahul_Manekari/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - The History of Microsoft @Rahul_Manekari:well, the current day Bill Gates and Microsoft have a record of one fail after another. Maybe his earlier success was due to the work of others? 

 

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Steve Ballmer seems a good choice by Bill Gates, as he managed to turn Microsoft to the greatest patent troll working today.

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, fanbaby wrote

Steve Ballmer seems a good choice by Bill Gates, as he managed to turn Microsoft to the greatest patent troll working today.

Unfortunately, they're not alone in the upper echelon of patent trolling.  Apple basically has a patent on a device that's rectangular in shape with rounded corners (seriously). 

The patent system is flawed and the state of patent trolling is ridiculous.  If you want to make any product that competes with the big boys you have to have a billion dollars worth of patents in order to counter sue these days (of course, that doesn't even work when you're being sued by someone who doesn't make or do anything other than acquire patents and sue others).

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, fanbaby wrote

Bill Gates's interests lay in IP collection and management more then engineering (as his co-founder Paul Allen BTW), which I think makes him much less important then some other persons in our craft.

*snip*

"Our"? I didn't know that being an anti-Microsoft troll was considered a craft.

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, cbae wrote

"Our"? I didn't know that being an anti-Microsoft troll was considered a craft.

You chose that paragraph as the one to call a troll? The first paragraph at least had some citations. The second one was just a personal attack on SB and a suggestion that MS deals in patents any differently to other key players in the industry.

At least Google do no evil.

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