Bill Gates - A short chat with Microsoft's Chief Software Architect | scobleizer

Pace
In The Mix...

Awesome video... been a long time coming...

I love the bit around 5:50 where Bill is describing just what MS is tackling and where they are tackling other vendors. The sheer look of relax and excitement on his face as he blatently says: "We pick the hard ones..."

TravisOwens
Life is short, drink hard.

>> Jamie said "There should be some sort of monthly - bullet point
>> exec memo "The best of Channel 9" - that they must read -
>> so they are at least briefed on the major threads and
>> discussions - maybe just the top 5".

That's the best idea I've heard on here for improving the site.

There should be a two types of noteable videos, "Most Watched" links that have a date cutoff of 30 days, calculated by diving the total number of views by the number of days since posting. As then "Most Popular", which is tallied by what posts have the most forum chatter. Both of which could be top 5s, making a totol of a top 10 list.

And the coder who can somehow merge these two lists and order them intelligently is a sharp coder.

Comic Strip Blogger
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W3bbo wrote:

I do'nt know about you, but I actually like the lack of advertising and public awareness of smartphones.

If they did, then Jamster would be all over it.

IMO, Smartphones should be relegated to "business" grade phones and nothing else. I do NOT want to see Crazy Frog adverts with an option for Microsoft Smartphones.

You don't understand: mobile phone industry is not the same as Office software or operating systems or databases. Crazy Frog is bad and Jamster is evil (because Jamster woos people to get one game for free but in reality they fool them into full subscription that often remains hidden - I have fallen for this trap myself once) - I agree - but advertising Windows Mobile phones (or Symbian phones) is not the same as Crazy Frog advertisements. The fact is that Microsoft's competition spends hundreds of millions of USD on advertisements of symbian phones, and Microsoft obviously has no such money for advertisement of Windows Mobile only, but I think that plugging of Windows Mobile phones into advertisments of other Microsoft products could help a lot.

Anyway I liked it when Bill G said "we take on nokia" - he clealry understands that it is not battle against symbian (that is just a puppet of nokia) but against nokia itself.

BTW: speaking of Tablet PC: if Bill Gates is left-handed (as I am) then I wonder why there is no way to select "left-handed mode" in Tablet PC OS, so that all scroll bars should be on the left side (not right side as usual)? The only answer I can imagine: Bill Gates is not using Tablet PCs really often...

Summarizing I think that in next interview with Bill Gates Scoble should ask him: a) how Microsoft can counter big advertisemnt campaigns, big marketing power, of nokia, in the view that Microsoft makes only software - Windows Mobile - and marketing of Windows Mobile phones is tiny, b) why Tablet PC is not adaptable for left-handed people ? are you left handed?

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Tubusy

reinux wrote:

And I'm a bit skeptic about speech recognition... it's nice, but I type faster than I talk. Talking to machines is pretty embarrassing.

You're right, it is embarrassing for us, but I think that will be a generational thing. People were scared of telephones before the following generation adopted them. Keyboards will always be more efficient in certain situations for certain tasks, but I really look forward to being able to control the basic functions of my PC/home by casually issuing commands... speech recognition will have its place.

reinux wrote:

In any case, I love how he believes that computers are for people to use, not just geeks. So few geeks these days bother to look at the big picture. Really refreshing to listen to people like him talk.

I think that's one of the big problems of Linux, it's developed by geeks for geeks. Sometimes I wonder if they even want regular users coming into their world. Until that issue is addressed, Linux is never going to hit the mainstream IMO.

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byron
strike1

:)Scoble, You make Dreams Come True, Sorry but, I was over the Moon when I saw Bill, A little dream come true for me since 1985,
working on my first computing in london with DOS, etc.....Im amazed
since the advent of the web, we can see Mr.Gates as never before,
Great to See Bill and all very happy, after all those years since the beginning of our computing, Im personnally always developing on and around windows and inside,,,,,,,,,,,Bill is a Great man, great chance to see him in true colour,,:)I hope the world is O.K ,Now. Wink

aswin

hi!! superb video, recently read the book "The Road Ahead" by BillG & i feel this video is a shorter version of that.

s_jetha
'Will it run on my 486?'

He may be the richest guy in the world.
He may have been the boss of the largest company in the world.
He may be in the fastest growing industry in the world.
He may know his industry inside-out and back-to-front.

But at the end of the day, he's a geek.
#1 reason why I love Microsoft Smiley

reinux

s_jetha wrote:
He may be the richest guy in the world.
He may have been the boss of the largest company in the world.
He may be in the fastest growing industry in the world.
He may know his industry inside-out and back-to-front.

But at the end of the day, he's a geek.
#1 reason why I love Microsoft

Amen.