Tagged: Bill Gates

Steve Jobs predicts the impact of the Internet in 1985 9 to 5 Mac Steve Jobs predicts the impact of the Internet in 1985 Apple Intelligence

Steve Jobs and Bill Gates
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Steve Jobs predicts the impact of the Internet in 1985 9 to 5 Mac Steve Jobs predicts the impact of the Internet in 1985 Apple Intelligence.  It’s nice that we had another visionary besides Bill Gates.

 

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Fazny Zavahir: Programmers Who Defined the Tech Industry: Where Are They Now? (via Fazny Zavahir’s Blog)

Some great research and thoughts on this post. Blogs would be so incredible if we all made the time to research like this! Great work!

Some early programmer names are familiar to even the most novice of software developers. You may never have seen a line of code written by Bill Gates, or written any application in BASIC (much less for the Altair). But you know Gates’ name, and the names of a few others. That’s a darned shame, because the early microcomputer era (we didn’t uniformly call them “personal computers” yet) had many brilliant software developers. Some of them went on t … Read More

via Fazny Zavahir’s Blog

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Melinda Gates Denies Her Children the Sweet, Delicious Temptation of Apple Products

Melinda Gates Denies Her Children the Sweet, Delicious Temptation of Apple Products.  Kind of silly isn’t it?  Does it really matter?  Can you really prevent the world from affecting your children?  I don’t think so.  Seems better to me to equip them to handle the different things the world offers than to shield them from everything.

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How Microsoft foresaw–and still missed–the iPad (via Indonesianurbanfamily’s Blog)

Who is copying whom?

By: Ina Fried The technology icon stands before a crowd, holding in his hands a prototype that embodies his vision for the future of computing. It’s a touch-screen tablet that is thinner than a magazine, has all-day battery life, and sells for less than $800. But the icon wasn’t Steve Jobs and the tablet wasn’t the iPad. It was Bill Gates, speaking in 2005 to a crowd of Windows hardware makers in Seattle. The technology enabling such a device was … Read More

via Indonesianurbanfamily’s Blog

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