{"id":1577,"date":"2001-12-08T10:45:54","date_gmt":"2001-12-08T15:45:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=1577"},"modified":"2001-12-08T10:45:54","modified_gmt":"2001-12-08T15:45:54","slug":"oh_definitely_b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2001\/12\/08\/oh_definitely_b.html","title":{"rendered":"“Oh, definitely. Believe me.”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sarah, 15, from Lincolnshire, got to interview Bill Gates<\/a>. Aside from some relatively self-serving statements, there were some amusing interchanges.<\/p>\n

Sarah: What do you think it is that they [Microsoft competitors] particularly dislike?
\nBill: People in the marketplace buy exactly what they want and they buy Windows machines because of the things that we’ve done there, the investments we’ve made there, if a company’s successful it’s mainly the competitors that speak out, you know.
\nThey fear being in competition and we have a lot of competitors but mostly what we’ve got is people who never would have experienced computing if it hadn’t been for the PC approach that we brought to the market.<\/p>\n

That’s right. The “PC approach” all derives from Micro$oft’s efforts.<\/p>\n

And, of course, the point of being identified as a monopoly is that people can’t<\/i> buy “exactly what they want,” since what they can buy is limited by the monopoly. People “buy Windows machines” because M$ has managed to drive nearly all of its competitors out of business, and to hold onto that business with unfair business practices.<\/p>\n

Sarah: And finally, does your computer ever crash?
\nBill: Oh definitely, believe me I get to the bottom of it every time and that’s part of the passion that I and a lot of Microsoft people have is we want to make a tool that we want to use ourselves and we know from our own use we can make it a lot better and a lot more reliable.<\/p>\n

Funny, that’s never quite the spin Bill et al. put on the latest-greatest M$ offering when they’re talking with the press. “We can make it a lot better and a lot more reliable.” Probably everyone would agree with that.<\/p>\n

Of course, if I were Bill Gates, I imagine I’d get pretty quick support from Micro$oft, too.<\/p>\n

(Via Brad Choate<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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