Bill Gates 'Not Satisfied' With Microsoft's Innovations
Software giant's history in the mobile division was "clearly a mistake".
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has emphasized that he's "not satisfied" with the software giant's innovations, especially in the smartphone market.
During an interview with "CBS This Morning," the Microsoft chairman was asked whether he was happy with Steve Ballmer's performance as the company's CEO. Although he stated that "many amazing things" have come to fruition under Ballmer's leadership over the last couple of years, Gates stressed that he's not satisfied with the firm's innovations.
"Well, he and I are two of the most self-critical people ... you can imagine," said Gates. "And here were a lot of amazing things that Steve's leadership got done with the company in the last year. Windows 8 is key to the future, the Surface computer. Bing, people are seeing as a better search product, Xbox."
"But is ... is it enough?" he added. "No, he and I are not satisfied that in terms of, you know, breakthrough things, that we're doing everything possible."
Gates pointed towards Microsoft's position in the smartphone sector as an example of the company's shortcomings. It currently accounts for 2.4 percent of the market with its Windows Phone platform.
"There's a lot of things like cell phones where we didn't get out in the lead very early. We didn't miss cell phones, but the way we went about it didn't allow us to get the leadership. So it's clearly a mistake."
Gates' comments were made during an interview pertaining to the Melinda and Bill Gates Foundation, where he has donated a substantial amount of money for philanthropy since stepping down as Microsoft's CEO in 2008. During December 2012, he had a net worth of $65 billion, which is after donating more than $28 billion towards numerous charitable causes.
How is that some sort of revelation? If Windows 8 was really good then of course "ol' Billy bob" would say it's good because it is the truth no? Logic? Hello?
And I love all your descriptive details on why Windows 8 is bad, man, how foolish was I to not have cited what you said about....oh I don't know...that one part where you said absolutely nothing of value about it, changed my life.
That's what subtle criticism is for...
Anyways...
Face it, Win8 is another vista.
Fire Ballmer and have a bonfire with the remaining copies of win8....
How is that some sort of revelation? If Windows 8 was really good then of course "ol' Billy bob" would say it's good because it is the truth no? Logic? Hello?
And I love all your descriptive details on why Windows 8 is bad, man, how foolish was I to not have cited what you said about....oh I don't know...that one part where you said absolutely nothing of value about it, changed my life.
Android phones struggle to have an improved interface closer to that of (real) Windows on computers (real= EXCEPT Windows 8). Microsoft is going the dumb way with a RETARDED INTERFACE.
There you go, pay the price, Steve Dumbmer.
It can be done. But you need to inject the drivers on the installation disk, not the easiest task. But i managed to do it with a XPS 13.
So Bill Gates has no clue as to what's going on at Microsoft. It's a table, even MS refers to it as a tablet. His entire speech is BS.
Wearable computer eguipment, flegsible items, new portable items/products, enchanced reality stuff, holo suits etc...
"Mr. Gates expressed confidence, though, that it's not too late for Microsoft to claw its way to a significant mobile market share. He's a big fan of Windows 8 and Microsoft's Surface tablet."
I've been a MS fanboy most of my life, but seriously if they can't offer a product at a price point even in the ballpark of the competition then they have failed.
No, just no to all. Except maybe Surface. That might have a place as an offshoot to a traditional Windows OS. Bing is slow with worse search results and less features compared to Google. They do have interesting homepages though. Xbox should just be wiped off the map at the rate its going. It makes companies like EA and Activision look consumer-oriented.
The term computer applies just fine. Table most certainly doesn't work at all there
What exactly is so frustrating about it? If it bothers you, then you might as well do something about it. UI issues are easily solved as are many others, so if those are the only woes, then you should be able to resolve them with ease after taking a quick look into them. If there are other issues, maybe more drastic measures will be necessary, but you won't know until you try.
I actually HAVE a Windows 8 Phone and I think its great. On the other hand I installed Windows 8 on a system for a friends kid and its just not ready. For one thing if you changed memory it would break the OS (I can change memory on win 7 with no problems) then the kid needed to use a USB wireless device to get on the internet, we tried two different brands and both caused the OS to crash. We switched to Win 7 and now the thing works great.
But I really wish people with no knowledge of a certain product would just keep their mouth shut. The Windows 8 phone is awesome. Its much better than my android tablet and my wife's Iphone.
They already have such a phone, its called the Nokia Lumia 920.