The CG boys are live inside the Sands at the Bill Gates CES 2008 Keynote and we’re covering it live using, oddly enough, CoverItLive.com. Check it out at CrunchGear.com/live and check out our extensive and exhausting CES coverage.
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John Biggs
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January 6, 2008
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I find Bill Gates to be increasingly irrelevant to the tech industry… I would say for the past 7 years, his company has done very little in the way of innovation or “leading the way” type of activities. Not to take away from his philantrophist activities which are making a difference in this world (but not in the tech).
Jon
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@Jon
Calling Bill Gates irrelevant in the tech industry is a little bit careless. Just like John Madden in football, although he doesn’t play anymore, his words still carry a lot of weight.
Watch it live – http://www.micr.../billgates.mspx
@Carla
I didn’t say he WAS irrelevant, what I said was that he is increasingly becoming so in the tech industry. Using your John Madden analogy, when was the last time he played an active role in a team winning or loosing a game or even getting into the SuperBowl? Bill Gates, with all due respect, is NOT the tech industry… he does have some influence, but no longer anywhere near the power he once had. I would even argue that Microsoft itself is increasingly becoming irrelevant with Google, Apple, IBM and Linux beginning to draw blood.
Encarta is nowhere near Wikipedia
XBox360 is STILL a loss leader vs PS3
Zune is still a loss leader vs iPod
OSX, Linux are gaining market share on XP/VISTA
EI is loosing market share to Mozilla (Firefox)
Office is dead in the water vs Google if it doesn’t become web based in a few years
MSN Live Search is a joke compared to Google, even Yahoo is better!
(I could go on, but I hope you get my point)
Jon
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Bill Gates is a has been in my opinion.
he never was
Only saving grace of this keynote was that, at the same age, I appear to be in much better physical shape than Gates. Did the video add 10 pounds?
A Has Been? not hardly. Google is obsessed with displacing M$ and the 800 b gorilla. These people aren’t chasing their tails, they’re chasing M$, AND Bill Gates. Get real here!
Nice to watch CES 2008 Keynote and such event through crunchgear.
@Jon
Your “points” (if anyone would actually call them that – aside from you) are laughable in their inaccuracy.
The coveritlive software is pretty interesting.
Cataloged some of the other coverage here:
http://www.maha...ES_2008_Keynote
JON: you make me laugh
Microsoft is the gorilla, google is no where near there level! Time is on Microsoft’s side!
@Blake – if my points are so inaccurate, vet me out and prove it. Go for it… I challenge you to prove me wrong. If memory serves me right, Encarta actually tried the “wikipedia route” a year or two ago, it was a dismal failure.
@liquidboy – if the past decade prove anything, time is NOT on Microsofts side… they have a pile of money but if you take out their OS and Office properties, they really don’t have much PROFITABLE success to brag about. They got too much money and can’t figure out what to do with it so they throw it against the wall hoping something sticks. Microsoft will soon be an anorexic gorilla if they don’t get their act together soon… they are stuck on the same business model as Yahoo – diversify yourself into oblivion.
I have 0 against Microsoft, I think they still have a freaking load of potential to change things. They just need to give their photocopier a rest.
Jon
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Guys there was an announcement for 2008 that Microsoft will buy at least 10 companies per year .so they will probably find where to spend the money and the result will be to become even bigger!
Microsoft does not innovate. Not to the extent of Apple at least. They don’t need to. They lead the market. Look at corporates, they use Microsoft products pretty much everywhere. Not just the OS or Office, I’m talking about databases, dev tools and so on.
I think the point is that when you are moneywise ahead of competition, why should you change the rules of the game by trying to superseed yourself?
That’s actually why Microsoft seems to copy others ideas: they don’t need to try to invent something and see if it works, they just need to wait and do what it already seems to work for others. Just let the others create the market and hen jump in eroding some of it.
Of course this policy sometimes doesn’t work, but still I don’t think that consumer market is the main focus for Microsoft. They just need to keep their name out there, regardless the fact that it sells or not.
As for other companies that are growing, it may happen that at some point they will become relevant for Microsoft however, so far, Microsoft seemed to be the only big company in the computer market that has been able to cope with the fact that is incredibly huge. I don’t know if others (i.e. Apple) would be able to replicate the experience.
Of course, as a consumer and geek, the fact that the leader doesn’t bring innovation makes me feel a little depressed. But, well, that leaves something for others to work on right?
The best part had to be the celebrity cameos!
http://www.webc...in-w-jay-z.html