Never Before Seen Bill Gates Photos

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Post by jasonlbaptiste » Sat, Jun 21, 2008, 12:26 AM UTC

Never Before Seen Bill Gates Photos
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Post by pxlpshr » Sat, Jun 21, 2008, 1:23 AM UTC

That was very enjoyable to watch. While I have little interest in Microsoft anymore, I have a lot of respect for Bill Gates and the road they paved.

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Post by DaniFong » Sat, Jun 21, 2008, 1:29 AM UTC

And audiotrack, to go with the slideshow.

I enjoyed this.

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Post by mynameishere » Sat, Jun 21, 2008, 1:42 AM UTC

Is there some reason that alpha-males like Steve Ballmer always wear pink shirts? A play for contrast?

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Post by ovi256 » Sat, Jun 21, 2008, 1:46 AM UTC

mynameishere wrote: post #4

Is there some reason that alpha-males like Steve Ballmer always wear pink shirts? A play for contrast?

It could be an attempt to project an image of innocence. Or could be a self put down. Something like: I will wear ping, so I better make it up in behaviour.

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Post by drios » Sat, Jun 21, 2008, 2:03 AM UTC

mynameishere wrote: post #4

Is there some reason that alpha-males like Steve Ballmer always wear pink shirts? A play for contrast?

you ment alpha-whale?

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Post by ajross » Sat, Jun 21, 2008, 2:22 AM UTC

pxlpshr wrote: post #2

That was very enjoyable to watch. While I have little interest in Microsoft anymore, I have a lot of respect for Bill Gates and the road they paved.

Yeah. It was The Road Ahead that caused them trouble.

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Post by daniel-cussen » Sat, Jun 21, 2008, 2:34 AM UTC

pxlpshr wrote: post #2

That was very enjoyable to watch. While I have little interest in Microsoft anymore, I have a lot of respect for Bill Gates and the road they paved.

I have to agree. Bill Gates is cool; Microsoft isn't. Both have good and bad deeds, but on the whole, the former has good karma, and the latter doesn't.

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Post by watmough » Sat, Jun 21, 2008, 2:37 AM UTC

I really enjoyed that. When Bill talks about growing Microsoft, and the early days, it always make me remember really great products like early Excel and Word, and the sheer excitement when MS Access (Cirrus) came out.

It's kind of a shame that BG kinda let the technical aspect get out of control. The state of current MS tools, critical stuff like VS2005, is deplorable in comparison to the tight good performing code that MS used to have. I remember laughing at early versions of NetBeans, but slightly clunky though it is, I would much rather be in NetBeans than in VS.

This sloppiness is all over the most recent versions of Office also, and it seems pretty clear that the race to the bottom in software hiring has really hurt Microsoft, especially with the devastating mess that was the Longhorn 'reboot' and Vista mess.

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Post by mdakin » Sat, Jun 21, 2008, 3:07 AM UTC

mynameishere wrote: post #4

Is there some reason that alpha-males like Steve Ballmer always wear pink shirts? A play for contrast?

I know from experience that such shirts tend to come as gifts from hot girlfriends. So if there is any correlation between alpha-males and such shirts it is probably related to a correlation between alpha-males and hot girlfriends.