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Did you ask him about his nightmare: Tiger on PC lol]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/05/02/the-engadget-interview-bill-gates-part-1/http://www.engadget.com/2005/05/02/the-engadget-interview-bill-gates-part-1/
No, really... it's nice to see the bloggers win again =). Must've been nice getting the chance to interview arguably the most powerful man in the world.]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/05/02/the-engadget-interview-bill-gates-part-1/http://www.engadget.com/2005/05/02/the-engadget-interview-bill-gates-part-1/Dec 19th 2005 12:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/05/02/the-engadget-interview-bill-gates-part-1/http://www.engadget.com/2005/05/02/the-engadget-interview-bill-gates-part-1/
I also would have asked him about Outsourcing, H1b Visas and MS's questionable political actions.]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/05/02/the-engadget-interview-bill-gates-part-1/http://www.engadget.com/2005/05/02/the-engadget-interview-bill-gates-part-1/Dec 19th 2005 12:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/05/02/the-engadget-interview-bill-gates-part-1/http://www.engadget.com/2005/05/02/the-engadget-interview-bill-gates-part-1/
"I think you’ll see us do flavors of the phone that are better for gaming and have an affinity to PC gaming and Xenon gaming"... interesting.]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/05/02/the-engadget-interview-bill-gates-part-1/http://www.engadget.com/2005/05/02/the-engadget-interview-bill-gates-part-1/Dec 19th 2005 12:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/05/02/the-engadget-interview-bill-gates-part-1/http://www.engadget.com/2005/05/02/the-engadget-interview-bill-gates-part-1/
Was Coke a sponsor? LOL :D]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/05/02/the-engadget-interview-bill-gates-part-1/http://www.engadget.com/2005/05/02/the-engadget-interview-bill-gates-part-1/Dec 19th 2005 12:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/05/02/the-engadget-interview-bill-gates-part-1/http://www.engadget.com/2005/05/02/the-engadget-interview-bill-gates-part-1/
I was less impressed by what he said about phones, specifically a) that the phone is some sort of all-encompassing device that trumps everything else, and b) his implication that basically business users are the high-end users and consumers are the low-end users. I think that's backwards. Businesses want low-cost, security-minded devices that have one or two functions that work well without frills - this is why Blackberries are so popular in business while 3 megapixel cameraphones are not.

It's no skin off my back because I don't really care to have Windows running on my phone but he's just got the market all wrong. It's consumers that want the whiz-bang new features and the flash, and are willing to pay for it (look at the Razr - how many businesses bought up a shipment of those to hand out to their employees? It's strictly a consumer device).

And he's also wrong that phone "trumps media players, it trumps cameras, it trumps GPS-mapping devices, digital wallets, and even entertainment." I think people with this sort of mindset are just looking at raw numbers without putting any thought into how or why people use the devices they do - yes, the market in phones is big, but people are not buying them *instead* of other devices, and many of them are given out for free with a contract. So unless you're in the business of selling a service, you're not really gaining much from those sales. There is a segment of the public that will pay $$$ for a phone, but there is also a segment of the public that will pay $$$ for an iPod or a PSP. He's basically ignoring that market because he wants to put out products that only appeal *both* to business users *and* that "trickle down" into the consumer market... either that or he's still got his convergence blinders on, but he seems to have otherwise given up on that idea given his talk of segmenting the Xbox 360 and Media Center PC's.]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/05/02/the-engadget-interview-bill-gates-part-1/http://www.engadget.com/2005/05/02/the-engadget-interview-bill-gates-part-1/Dec 19th 2005 12:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/05/02/the-engadget-interview-bill-gates-part-1/http://www.engadget.com/2005/05/02/the-engadget-interview-bill-gates-part-1/Dec 19th 2005 12:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/05/02/the-engadget-interview-bill-gates-part-1/http://www.engadget.com/2005/05/02/the-engadget-interview-bill-gates-part-1/Dec 19th 2005 12:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/05/02/the-engadget-interview-bill-gates-part-1/http://www.engadget.com/2005/05/02/the-engadget-interview-bill-gates-part-1/Mobile Phone, they just followers using their market clout to beat the competitor, if they have to compete fairly would be lost by now. All the development in the mobile is not being done by M$, its happening outside of windows platform driven by DoCoMo and so forth.
The buisness market is driven by RIM and Treo, MS playing catch up. For all the things that are being said about mobile phone, battery power is very important. PSP battery comes for about 4hrs, you cannot have that on a phone. When you cramp eveyrthing into the phone, the battery life would be even more worse. Its the battery life that would determine the level of integration in the phone.
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Well, you're forgetting one thing: Bill thinks portable video on a 4" screen is a good idea, so .. yeah.. Sony agrees with him. Unfortunately, the public won't.]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/05/02/the-engadget-interview-bill-gates-part-1/http://www.engadget.com/2005/05/02/the-engadget-interview-bill-gates-part-1/
The Xbox 360 could easily run circles around a Windows Media Center if Microsoft chose to add those features to it.

A perfect example of this is Xbox Media Center for the current generation of Xbox. It is astounding how much more elegant it is compared to a Windows Media Center PC. The only problem with XBMC is that due to the lack of a TV Tuner, the current Xbox cannot function as a DVR. Other than that an Xbox paired with a 400GB hard drive is a perfect, self contained media center. Add in the fact that media can be easily streamed from the Internet or Samba shares and it's hard for Windows Media Center to match up.]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/05/02/the-engadget-interview-bill-gates-part-1/http://www.engadget.com/2005/05/02/the-engadget-interview-bill-gates-part-1/Dec 19th 2005 12:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/05/02/the-engadget-interview-bill-gates-part-1/http://www.engadget.com/2005/05/02/the-engadget-interview-bill-gates-part-1/Dec 19th 2005 12:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/05/02/the-engadget-interview-bill-gates-part-1/http://www.engadget.com/2005/05/02/the-engadget-interview-bill-gates-part-1/Dec 19th 2005 12:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/05/02/the-engadget-interview-bill-gates-part-1/http://www.engadget.com/2005/05/02/the-engadget-interview-bill-gates-part-1/Oh wait, hey, look, it is an OS zealot! What zoo are you missing from, chief?
Just to throw some gasoline on your flame, Stalfos, LINUS TORVALDS SUCKS **** AT TRUCKSTOPS!
lol @ OS Zealots]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/05/02/the-engadget-interview-bill-gates-part-1/http://www.engadget.com/2005/05/02/the-engadget-interview-bill-gates-part-1/Dec 19th 2005 12:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/05/02/the-engadget-interview-bill-gates-part-1/http://www.engadget.com/2005/05/02/the-engadget-interview-bill-gates-part-1/Dec 19th 2005 12:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/05/02/the-engadget-interview-bill-gates-part-1/http://www.engadget.com/2005/05/02/the-engadget-interview-bill-gates-part-1/Dec 19th 2005 12:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/05/02/the-engadget-interview-bill-gates-part-1/http://www.engadget.com/2005/05/02/the-engadget-interview-bill-gates-part-1/Dec 19th 2005 12:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/05/02/the-engadget-interview-bill-gates-part-1/http://www.engadget.com/2005/05/02/the-engadget-interview-bill-gates-part-1/Dec 19th 2005 12:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/05/02/the-engadget-interview-bill-gates-part-1/http://www.engadget.com/2005/05/02/the-engadget-interview-bill-gates-part-1/Dec 19th 2005 12:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/05/02/the-engadget-interview-bill-gates-part-1/http://www.engadget.com/2005/05/02/the-engadget-interview-bill-gates-part-1/Dec 19th 2005 12:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/05/02/the-engadget-interview-bill-gates-part-1/http://www.engadget.com/2005/05/02/the-engadget-interview-bill-gates-part-1/Dec 19th 2005 12:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/05/02/the-engadget-interview-bill-gates-part-1/http://www.engadget.com/2005/05/02/the-engadget-interview-bill-gates-part-1/
Nice interview. I suspect Microsoft will remain a tiny player in the mobile phone market for sometime, nokia and other big phone makers have a very tight grip on the industry, and will not give that up easily. And frankly they make more interesting phones to the consumers.

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Sony will really have a leg up if they make their system the "hub" instead of just an extender. They've already done it with the PSX which was somewhat of a failure, but at least they have tested the waters and know what works. I doubt that Sony will include Tivo like functionality in the PS3 as it may be too costly. I could see a nice TV tuner add-on in the future for the PS3.]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/05/02/the-engadget-interview-bill-gates-part-1/http://www.engadget.com/2005/05/02/the-engadget-interview-bill-gates-part-1/Dec 19th 2005 12:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/05/02/the-engadget-interview-bill-gates-part-1/http://www.engadget.com/2005/05/02/the-engadget-interview-bill-gates-part-1/
And yes, I do need a haircut.]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/05/02/the-engadget-interview-bill-gates-part-1/http://www.engadget.com/2005/05/02/the-engadget-interview-bill-gates-part-1/
http://www.icebin.net/]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/05/02/the-engadget-interview-bill-gates-part-1/http://www.engadget.com/2005/05/02/the-engadget-interview-bill-gates-part-1/
Which is a good startegy because they are not directly attacking the giants (Nintendo and Sony) but actually pulling off something sneaky.

I didn't bother buying a gameboy advance because my Pocket PC (HP iPAQ h2210) can run GBA games through the morphgear software.]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/05/02/the-engadget-interview-bill-gates-part-1/http://www.engadget.com/2005/05/02/the-engadget-interview-bill-gates-part-1/
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Sure getting a trim one in a while is good but don't you dare shave your mane.]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/05/02/the-engadget-interview-bill-gates-part-1/http://www.engadget.com/2005/05/02/the-engadget-interview-bill-gates-part-1/Dec 19th 2005 12:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/05/02/the-engadget-interview-bill-gates-part-1/http://www.engadget.com/2005/05/02/the-engadget-interview-bill-gates-part-1/Dec 19th 2005 12:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/05/02/the-engadget-interview-bill-gates-part-1/http://www.engadget.com/2005/05/02/the-engadget-interview-bill-gates-part-1/
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'CUZ BONO DID!]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/05/02/the-engadget-interview-bill-gates-part-1/http://www.engadget.com/2005/05/02/the-engadget-interview-bill-gates-part-1/Dec 19th 2005 12:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/05/02/the-engadget-interview-bill-gates-part-1/http://www.engadget.com/2005/05/02/the-engadget-interview-bill-gates-part-1/
Lost my train of thought, more comments on part two of the interview!]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/05/02/the-engadget-interview-bill-gates-part-1/http://www.engadget.com/2005/05/02/the-engadget-interview-bill-gates-part-1/See I agree with you that MS has their BIG Azz monopoly. But See you phrase LINUX and Apple OSs but the fact is those companies arent making as much money as microsoft is. And GATES is smart dude. The only company he should be scared of right now is GOOGLE cuz GOOGLE is expanding FAST. If they come up with some OS that would be something =P. But that might not even happen =P.
Overall, Good interview..
and this message is for BILL GATES, IF HE READS THIS.. Can I have your 1 hour pay. I'm jobless right now.. I need money and JOB =P]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:13AM