Comments on: Bill Gates sees Nintendo as toughest competion http://www.wiinintendo.net/2007/04/06/bill-gates-sees-nintendo-as-toughest-competion/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:30:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Marketrue http://www.wiinintendo.net/2007/04/06/bill-gates-sees-nintendo-as-toughest-competion/comment-page-1/#comment-808540 Marketrue Fri, 11 Jun 2010 01:46:33 +0000 http://wiinintendo.net/2007/04/06/bill-gates-sees-nintendo-as-toughest-competion/#comment-808540 I entered computers way back in 70/71 and was using programmable calculators with nixie tubes. Then got into 2002/2008/8080/z80/etc. Then it was CP/M and had PascalMT+ from one of the people mentioned in Gates history who lived up in Solana Beach who I believe developed concurrent CP/M 86 or MP/M. What most people don’t realize is that Gates is mostly a business person (yah, maybe knows some programming) and took what at the time was called QDOS (Quick and Dirty Operating System) and maybe reworked it into PC-DOS. Later IBM got involved, bought the OS and Gates went on w/MS and called it MS-DOS. QDOS I believe came from Canada and he exploited it here in US. Made a fortune but a chief architect, hah. Mostly a business oriented Harvard graduate not a s/w engineer at heart. But as time evolved, his OS became a “defacto” standard and all jumped on the band wagon. I credit the people he hired to work on OS’s and apps more than him on the evolution as flawed as may be in many areas as he probably made decisions not too popular with developers. I entered computers way back in 70/71 and was using programmable calculators with nixie tubes. Then got into 2002/2008/8080/z80/etc. Then it was CP/M and had PascalMT+ from one of the people mentioned in Gates history who lived up in Solana Beach who I believe developed concurrent CP/M 86 or MP/M. What most people don’t realize is that Gates is mostly a business person (yah, maybe knows some programming) and took what at the time was called QDOS (Quick and Dirty Operating System) and maybe reworked it into PC-DOS. Later IBM got involved, bought the OS and Gates went on w/MS and called it MS-DOS. QDOS I believe came from Canada and he exploited it here in US. Made a fortune but a chief architect, hah. Mostly a business oriented Harvard graduate not a s/w engineer at heart. But as time evolved, his OS became a “defacto” standard and all jumped on the band wagon. I credit the people he hired to work on OS’s and apps more than him on the evolution as flawed as may be in many areas as he probably made decisions not too popular with developers.

]]> By: 32BitBob http://www.wiinintendo.net/2007/04/06/bill-gates-sees-nintendo-as-toughest-competion/comment-page-1/#comment-41779 32BitBob Tue, 10 Apr 2007 20:13:55 +0000 http://wiinintendo.net/2007/04/06/bill-gates-sees-nintendo-as-toughest-competion/#comment-41779 Story: "Anyone who says Bill Gates is not "far-seeing" is kidding themselves." Anyone who hasn't yet figured out that Nintendo is a force to be reckoned with, is deaf, dumb, blind, and quite dead. Sorry, bub, but Microsoft is still reacting. Story: “Anyone who says Bill Gates is not “far-seeing” is kidding themselves.”

Anyone who hasn’t yet figured out that Nintendo is a force to be reckoned with, is deaf, dumb, blind, and quite dead. Sorry, bub, but Microsoft is still reacting.

]]> By: 32BitBob http://www.wiinintendo.net/2007/04/06/bill-gates-sees-nintendo-as-toughest-competion/comment-page-1/#comment-823871 32BitBob Tue, 10 Apr 2007 20:13:00 +0000 http://wiinintendo.net/2007/04/06/bill-gates-sees-nintendo-as-toughest-competion/#comment-823871 Story: "Anyone who says Bill Gates is not "far-seeing" is kidding themselves." Anyone who hasn't yet figured out that Nintendo is a force to be reckoned with, is deaf, dumb, blind, and quite dead. Sorry, bub, but Microsoft is still reacting. Story: “Anyone who says Bill Gates is not “far-seeing” is kidding themselves.”

Anyone who hasn’t yet figured out that Nintendo is a force to be reckoned with, is deaf, dumb, blind, and quite dead. Sorry, bub, but Microsoft is still reacting.

]]> By: Will http://www.wiinintendo.net/2007/04/06/bill-gates-sees-nintendo-as-toughest-competion/comment-page-1/#comment-41073 Will Sun, 08 Apr 2007 20:12:14 +0000 http://wiinintendo.net/2007/04/06/bill-gates-sees-nintendo-as-toughest-competion/#comment-41073 Why can't anyone seperate the news from the photoshopped pictures that go along with them? Just because the news was posted with a picture obviously touched up no very long ago doesn't make the news itself old. Why can’t anyone seperate the news from the photoshopped pictures that go along with them? Just because the news was posted with a picture obviously touched up no very long ago doesn’t make the news itself old.

]]> By: Will http://www.wiinintendo.net/2007/04/06/bill-gates-sees-nintendo-as-toughest-competion/comment-page-1/#comment-823870 Will Sun, 08 Apr 2007 20:12:00 +0000 http://wiinintendo.net/2007/04/06/bill-gates-sees-nintendo-as-toughest-competion/#comment-823870 Why can't anyone seperate the news from the photoshopped pictures that go along with them? Just because the news was posted with a picture obviously touched up no very long ago doesn't make the news itself old. Why can’t anyone seperate the news from the photoshopped pictures that go along with them? Just because the news was posted with a picture obviously touched up no very long ago doesn’t make the news itself old.

]]> By: Tyler http://www.wiinintendo.net/2007/04/06/bill-gates-sees-nintendo-as-toughest-competion/comment-page-1/#comment-41025 Tyler Sun, 08 Apr 2007 15:53:58 +0000 http://wiinintendo.net/2007/04/06/bill-gates-sees-nintendo-as-toughest-competion/#comment-41025 Mick, Dont try to make this confession seem like obselete news. Take a closer look at the picture... The Everybody Votes channel is up there, which was released in the middle of February ; ) Mick, Dont try to make this confession seem like obselete news. Take a closer look at the picture… The Everybody Votes channel is up there, which was released in the middle of February ; )

]]> By: Tyler http://www.wiinintendo.net/2007/04/06/bill-gates-sees-nintendo-as-toughest-competion/comment-page-1/#comment-823869 Tyler Sun, 08 Apr 2007 15:53:00 +0000 http://wiinintendo.net/2007/04/06/bill-gates-sees-nintendo-as-toughest-competion/#comment-823869 Mick, Dont try to make this confession seem like obselete news. Take a closer look at the picture... The Everybody Votes channel is up there, which was released in the middle of February ; ) Mick, Dont try to make this confession seem like obselete news. Take a closer look at the picture… The Everybody Votes channel is up there, which was released in the middle of February ; )

]]> By: Mick Kaine http://www.wiinintendo.net/2007/04/06/bill-gates-sees-nintendo-as-toughest-competion/comment-page-1/#comment-40534 Mick Kaine Fri, 06 Apr 2007 23:42:27 +0000 http://wiinintendo.net/2007/04/06/bill-gates-sees-nintendo-as-toughest-competion/#comment-40534 This interview actually happened months ago. Very old news, like Decemberish. This interview actually happened months ago. Very old news, like Decemberish.

]]> By: Mick Kaine http://www.wiinintendo.net/2007/04/06/bill-gates-sees-nintendo-as-toughest-competion/comment-page-1/#comment-823867 Mick Kaine Fri, 06 Apr 2007 23:42:00 +0000 http://wiinintendo.net/2007/04/06/bill-gates-sees-nintendo-as-toughest-competion/#comment-823867 This interview actually happened months ago. Very old news, like Decemberish. This interview actually happened months ago. Very old news, like Decemberish.

]]> By: Mick Kaine http://www.wiinintendo.net/2007/04/06/bill-gates-sees-nintendo-as-toughest-competion/comment-page-1/#comment-823868 Mick Kaine Fri, 06 Apr 2007 23:42:00 +0000 http://wiinintendo.net/2007/04/06/bill-gates-sees-nintendo-as-toughest-competion/#comment-823868 This interview actually happened months ago. Very old news, like Decemberish. This interview actually happened months ago. Very old news, like Decemberish.

]]> By: AJ http://www.wiinintendo.net/2007/04/06/bill-gates-sees-nintendo-as-toughest-competion/comment-page-1/#comment-40495 AJ Fri, 06 Apr 2007 20:51:57 +0000 http://wiinintendo.net/2007/04/06/bill-gates-sees-nintendo-as-toughest-competion/#comment-40495 I love how they put the Wii channel screen on that old but classic photo. I love how they put the Wii channel screen on that old but classic photo.

]]> By: AJ http://www.wiinintendo.net/2007/04/06/bill-gates-sees-nintendo-as-toughest-competion/comment-page-1/#comment-823866 AJ Fri, 06 Apr 2007 20:51:00 +0000 http://wiinintendo.net/2007/04/06/bill-gates-sees-nintendo-as-toughest-competion/#comment-823866 I love how they put the Wii channel screen on that old but classic photo. I love how they put the Wii channel screen on that old but classic photo.

]]> By: Benny Hill http://www.wiinintendo.net/2007/04/06/bill-gates-sees-nintendo-as-toughest-competion/comment-page-1/#comment-40463 Benny Hill Fri, 06 Apr 2007 18:42:41 +0000 http://wiinintendo.net/2007/04/06/bill-gates-sees-nintendo-as-toughest-competion/#comment-40463 It also could be simply because he's talking to japan, which we know, is still basically owned by nintendo, unlike the us, where before the release of the wii, found itself an uphill battle in north america. For the most part, they still have one, it's too early to declare nintendo the winner this time around, but I think we'll know in a year, since by then halo 3 will have come out, as well as MP:3 corruption, and maybe sony will come up with something... another FF perhaps? It also could be simply because he’s talking to japan, which we know, is still basically owned by nintendo, unlike the us, where before the release of the wii, found itself an uphill battle in north america. For the most part, they still have one, it’s too early to declare nintendo the winner this time around, but I think we’ll know in a year, since by then halo 3 will have come out, as well as MP:3 corruption, and maybe sony will come up with something… another FF perhaps?

]]> By: Benny Hill http://www.wiinintendo.net/2007/04/06/bill-gates-sees-nintendo-as-toughest-competion/comment-page-1/#comment-823865 Benny Hill Fri, 06 Apr 2007 18:42:00 +0000 http://wiinintendo.net/2007/04/06/bill-gates-sees-nintendo-as-toughest-competion/#comment-823865 It also could be simply because he's talking to japan, which we know, is still basically owned by nintendo, unlike the us, where before the release of the wii, found itself an uphill battle in north america. For the most part, they still have one, it's too early to declare nintendo the winner this time around, but I think we'll know in a year, since by then halo 3 will have come out, as well as MP:3 corruption, and maybe sony will come up with something... another FF perhaps? It also could be simply because he’s talking to japan, which we know, is still basically owned by nintendo, unlike the us, where before the release of the wii, found itself an uphill battle in north america. For the most part, they still have one, it’s too early to declare nintendo the winner this time around, but I think we’ll know in a year, since by then halo 3 will have come out, as well as MP:3 corruption, and maybe sony will come up with something… another FF perhaps?

]]> By: Nintendo.Rob. http://www.wiinintendo.net/2007/04/06/bill-gates-sees-nintendo-as-toughest-competion/comment-page-1/#comment-40457 Nintendo.Rob. Fri, 06 Apr 2007 18:22:41 +0000 http://wiinintendo.net/2007/04/06/bill-gates-sees-nintendo-as-toughest-competion/#comment-40457 Hmm, not surprising really. i've got a Wii but getting an 360 soon, yay. Hmm, not surprising really. i’ve got a Wii but getting an 360 soon, yay.

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