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Bill Gates handles Steve Jobs’ insults in stride
By Luis Estrada: Steve Jobs was never one to pull any punches. Sugar coating his opinions simply wasn’t in his nature and it’s not terribly surprising to see Jobs take quite a few shots and some familiar targets in his biography. Steve Jobs was never a fan of Microsoft. Worse than copying the Mac with [...]
Continue reading...Steve Jobs comes in third on list of engineering heroes
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
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The lore of Steve Jobs has gotten so big that you probably wouldn’t be hard pressed to find people who think Jobs single handedly created both the iPod and the iPhone, maybe even while sleeping. Truth be told, Jobs is not and has never been a serious programmer and lacks any formal engineering training. Still, [...]
Continue reading...Microsoft: Protecting the Windows monopoly at all costs
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
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Microsoft’s tablet strategy remains in shambles. The HP Slate was essentially a bust on arrival, only to be followed up by the news that HP was abandoning Microsoft altogether in light of its $1.2 billion acquisition of Palm and its heralded WebOS. So what’s Microsoft to do? It’s not working on an iOS style version [...]
Continue reading...Steve Jobs worth $8.3 billion, ranked #110 on Forbes list of wealthiest individuals
Thursday, March 10, 2011
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Forbes today released its annual ranking of the world’s wealthiest individuals, and Apple CEO Steve Jobs comes in at #110 with an estimated net worth of approximately $8.3 billion. Last year Jobs’ net worth was valued at $5.5 billion. You know, just a year-over-year increase of $2.8 billion. No big thang. In March the Apple founder [...]
Continue reading...No Apple products cross the “threshold” of the Gates household
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
During a recent interview with the New York Times Magazine (subscription required), Melinda Gates emphatically reitterated that no Apple products are allowed to enter into chez Gates. Poor kids. Do you own an iPod, which is made by Apple? No, I have a Zune. What if one of your children says, “Mom, I have to [...]
Continue reading...When Bill Gates called Microsoft.com a “terrible website” and lambasted Windows usability
Thursday, September 9, 2010
Even the most ardent of Microsoft supporters can’t deny that ease of use has never been one of Microsoft’s strong suits. Case in point – a email from Bill Gates circa 2003 where the Microsoft co-founder lambasts his team over a mind boggling and complex scavenger hunt resulting from Gates’ attempt to download Windows MovieMaker. The [...]
Continue reading...Bill Gates on Apple, the iPad, and Steve Jobs – “We enjoyed sparring with each other”
Friday, June 4, 2010
Bill Gates and his father recently sat down for an interview with CNN’s Larry King, where the trio touched upon a number of topics. When asked if he was jealous of Apple’s recent success, Gates responded: No, Apple got started about 3 years after Microsoft and they’ve had some huge ups and downs.. Microsoft wrote [...]
Continue reading...Rumor: Steve Jobs to appear at All Things D Conference in June
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Valleywag is reporting that Apple CEO Steve Jobs has tentatively agreed to take the stage at this year’s All Things D Conference scheduled to take place later this June. An appearance at D would not only speak to Jobs’ continuing physical vitality but also his willingness to grapple with some of the thorny new controversies [...]
Continue reading...Bill Gates on Steve Jobs circa 1998: “He knows he can’t win”
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Back in 1998, Bill Gates was comfortably ruling Microsoft’s empire while Apple was bleeding cash and meekly attempting to stay in business. Now, 12 years later, Bill Gates is retired and Steve Jobs has masterfully transformed Apple into one of the most innovative, successful, and profitable tech companies in the world. While some of the [...]
Continue reading...Remember those weird Microsoft ads with Jerry Seinfeld and Bill Gates? Well, they were weird on purpose
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
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Back in September of 2008, Microsoft tried to hip up its image and combat Apple’s incessant PC bashing with a series of what were supposed to be comical ads featuring Jerry Seinfeld and former CEO Bill Gates. The ads were quirky but were also confusing, and ultimately failed to impress, prompting Microsoft to quickly axe [...]
Continue reading...Bill Gates not impressed with Apple iPad, is he out of touch?
Thursday, February 11, 2010
Former Microsoft CEO Bill Gates has been a strong advocate for tablet computing for nearly a decade. Back in 2001, he famously told CNN: The tablet takes cutting-edge PC technology and makes it available whenever you want it…It’s a PC that is virtually without limits — and within five years I predict it will be the [...]
Continue reading...Video of Bill Gates praising Steve Jobs
Friday, November 13, 2009
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Here’s the video clip we mentioned earlier of Bill Gates praising Steve Jobs for his work in turning around Apple from the brink of irrelevancy and extinction.
Continue reading...How Steve Jobs is different from most other CEO’s
Friday, November 13, 2009
Last night, CNBC aired a program called “Warren Buffett and Bill Gates: Keeping America Great”. Buffett and Gates are two of the wealthiest men in the world, and part of the program featured direct questions from the audience. At one point during the show, an audience member asked Gates for his thoughts on Steve Jobs and [...]
Continue reading...Rare photo of Steve Jobs and Bill Gates
Friday, November 6, 2009
Check out this rare photo of Steve Jobs and Bill Gates discussing god knows what at Jobs’ Palo Alto home in 1991. Both Jobs and Gates were 36 at the time the photo was taken. Jobs, at the time, had already been forced out of Apple years earlier and was currently working at NeXT, which [...]
Continue reading...Steve Jobs checks in as the 43rd richest American in 2009
Thursday, October 1, 2009
Forbes recently released its list of the 400 wealthiest people in America for 2009, and Apple CEO Steve Jobs checked in at the 43rd spot with a net worth of approximately $5.1 billion. With that kind of cash, Jobs could buy 864,406 iPod Shuffles or 255 thousand iPhone 3GS’s for $199. Or, he could also [...]
Continue reading...Steve Jobs vs. Bill Gates parodied in hilarious cartoon [Video]
Friday, August 7, 2009
This might very well be the funniest Mac related video ever done. Steve Jobs and Bill Gates battle it out in an “I’m a Mac” backdrop, with a hilarious cameo appearance by the Finder. Unbelievably well done, and well worth checking out.
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Monday, November 7, 2011
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