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Bill Gates, Engadget reader
By Ryan Block 
posted Feb 16th 2006 4:09PM
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Hey Bill!
Bill Gates rock! Keep it up, GO HD-DVD, GO Vista, Go Xbox, Go XNA, Go Visual Studio, Go Office, Go Outlook, Go IE, Go Apple..... wait, for clarification, I meant green apples I eat daily while reading engadget.
Gates has one hell of a portfolio.
Jeff.
Yes we use it because we have to.
i beg to differ. i can do all i want on ubuntu 7.04 and i dont ever need to go back to windows. and i actually do
wow.. are you serious?
Bill Gates is just THAT cool :)
Hi Bill. In your honor:
I'm just a bill.
Yes, I'm only a bill.
And I'm sitting here on Capitol Hill.
Well, it's a long, long journey
To the capital city.
It's a long, long wait
While I'm sitting in committee,
But I know I'll be a law some day
At least I hope and pray that I will
But today I am still just a bill.
- Schoolhouse Rock
Bill,
If you are reading this, I'll be over after dinner and I'll bring my Playstation.
Tootles.
yeah yeah Bill Gates
ill switch back to Windows for a billion...only a billion...cmooooon
Just in case:
Thanks for XP Pro. I really like it. I do not know why I should bother with Vista though. Windows 98 and 2000 definitely needed the update but I do not see any reason to get Vista over XP Pro.
And please hurry up and make an iPod killer. I want something with iPod functionality and size (or lack of size) but I do not want to be forced to use iTunes in order to get all of the functionality that the iPod offers. I must admit that I am not a fan of Apple generally though...
BILL YOU ROCK! :D
tell your MS boys to work hard on polishing software, though. a lot of it is great and has many great ideas, but take it a step further and make every piece of MS software a masterpiece. especially on the Windows Mobile side where there's a lot of power but little organisation, making the features too complex to find and use.
I guess even Bill has some free time at work!
Even some of us iMac users view Engadget daily too ;)
Don't lie about using wondows. The stink of non-truthiness doesn't look good on you.
hey bill,
i've recommended your operating systems and other productivity software to friends and employers. i've made you a lot of money. when can you send me my commission check?
also, i need a good electrical engineering job at microsoft. hook a brother up!!!
In the slim slim change Sir William is reading the comments... Bill dont let the RIAA and MPAA have its way with windows... If you DRM the heck out of it, you will isolate your fan base who depends on fair use. And if you do that, we will never go vista.
If you want to see the mention of Engadget directly, check out this clip.
http://channel9.msdn.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=163166&pvrid=237
How do you get a little gold star?
Maybe Bill can get them - if he posts.
You guys should post this on that new engadget mobile site. Bill knows where his next growth spurt will come from so he's probably over there right now!
I'm confused... are we supposed to like Microsoft now?
windows stinks! microsoft stinks! here that bill gates
greetings Blogoshpere,
I will confirm that I do read engadget daily. I enjoy the site, but there are a few changes that WILL take place. First, no more Apple topics of any kind. No iPod, no iMac, no OSX, nothing. OSX is a blatant copy of Vista, and any mention of that os will not be tolerated.
Second, no mention of Sony or Nintendo. These companies are anti-American, and should be avoided at all costs. The Xbox360 is all you can discuss.
Finally, a word of warning, since open source will destroy the software industry, no one using Firefox should be allowed to access this site.
That is all. Thank you.
Gimme Vista plz :|
ps: pay for my college tuition >_
Hello Bill!
If you can hear me now, please publish a new Mechwarrior!
And push for triple monitor support!
-Warmace
It's great that everyone is trying to do some butt-kissing. Like Mr. Gates will really give you or me a gift or something. : )
Dear Bill, in the unlikely event you would actually take the time of day to read this, I impose on to you my plea:
For once, just ONCE don't make yet another rehash of the same old shit.
Make it reliable.
Don't fucking patent everything to screw everyone else in the ass.
Bring in third parties of Coders to work in a similar method to that of opening the source. This would keep the system's code within microsoft, but would mean development and bug protection would be vastly enhanced.
I have seen the other side.
Unless Vista is SIGNIFICANTLY better than XP is, and isn't bogged down with viral problems and more bloat (Office comes on 3 CD's, for christs sake!) than I can tolerate, I will perminantly switch to Linux and Macintosh. What with CEDEGA improving rapidly and other developments happening faster to the opposing operating systems than that of Microsoft's flagship OS's, I belive that another payment to Microsoft will be out of the question.
Oh yeah, charging on the WMA licence to apple is dirty, man.
Cut the amount of crap out of windows. And please, for gods sake, get rid of the browser-integrated updater!
Signed-
Matthew Baggett
P.s - Think different ;-)
Every other closed-minded microsoft fan boy can just eat shit.
Anyone with a valid, non-biased opinion want to challenge what I have said? No? Good.
Hi Bill.
Hiya - Bill..
Opensource - dont hate the player, join the game. Give us a rope then sell us the cow.
How bout a free verion of Windows (maybe make 2000 open source) shows faith and that your are an alright guy to us evil genius college programmers looking to unseat you. We are the future !(googles,saleforces,milliondollarpageseses)
LEAVE THE XBOX 360 ALONE! No more hardware addons. Who cares about HD-DVD? No one appliance will control the living room...ever. One more update you can add: Release a .XEX signing kit for homebrew programmers, you can lock out the cool money making stuff (Live, wireless, etc). We dont care and we'll ove you for it. And one last 360 thing....Derrr..INTERNET BROWSER!!!
How about a free stripped down version of office? Educational discounts > $0 are still to high when you are eating cheese and crackers.
Dont hate steve..He actually listened to us. Creativity is his..Productivity is yours!
Do these things and you'll even be popular on myspace.com (the future...unfortunenately)
Love the philantrophy (tax write-offs) stuff.
Thanks for reading.
Bill,
You're a good man. Keep up the good work through your foundation.
Cheers!
BTW, Matthew you make some good points but you focus too much on the negative.
PS. I would like to see Jobs do something positive for humankind. Uhmmm... guess not because he's so in love with himself.
I you are reading this thank you for drm, hdcp and all other great stuff that will poison our life .
Great Job Bill !!!
Hey Engadget, I read you every day but i dont get my picture and an article on your site! I'm hurt
Of course it is in WMV format >:o
dude in america wrote
"maybe make 2000 open source"
Now that is a great idea.
Bill Gates reads Engadget on a daily basis? Wow. Way to go. Nice to see I have something in common with the richest man in the world which is good taste for blog sites :)
Don't know what else to say without sounding immature and stupid by insulting some of the products his company makes, so I'll just shut my trap and keep enjoying Engadget. You guys ROCK!!!
Oh yes, Bill, don't pay the EU a single cent (http://www.pcworld.com/resource/article/0,aid,124628,pg,1,RSS,RSS,00.asp) . Tell those boys across the pond if they don't like Windows, then use LINUX :)
Hmmmm... Why limit the deets to BG? Why not let all of us be featured as Engadget readers? ...and then we can start an emo blog about cellphone love ...and then we can sip lattes at Starbucks ...and...
Robert Preseau, Engadget reader
I'm still waiting for a post from engadget saying I read it everyday. Oh wait, I'm nobody :P
It's weird seeing Bill Gates talk in an interview, it's hard to picture him as a real person because he's so loaded. Sounds like a real down-to-earth person, especially in the Engadget interviews I've read.
I do love my Mac, but I don't know why people have to hate the other operating system so much. If you don't use it, then don't worry about it.
Fishes,
narco.
Bill knows that there's no defense for the crane kick.
Actually, we're not just singling out Mr. Gates -- from now on we're going to be highlighting a different Engadget reader a day. We only started with Bill G. because we're going in descending order of net worth. Just be patient -- it should only take about 13,000 years to feature every single one of you!
why are you charging us 69.99 for xbox 360 hard drive you scam, that's a rip off you scam of the earth.
Mr Gates thanks for the great software! There have been ups and downs, but more ups. Looking forward to Vista :)
I am impressed also with the aid you are providing to the rest of the world. We need more well-off people sharing the love!
GIVE IT UP FOR Meeeehhhhhhhh!
HEY BILL,
Do you ever use Bit Torrent? Ever used any P2P?
You should post a comment, you'll blow all these geeks minds.
Now I know Steve Jobs isn't Time Magazine's Man of the Year, but Apple rawks a lot harder than Windows. Granted, it's not entirely Microsoft's fault, but man, Windows is like a snail compared to OSX.
"You know, something that Steve Jobs hasn't already thought off like 10 years ago." #23
Thats the most rediculous thing anyone has ever said, ever.
Hi bill
Even though there are a lot of H8rs ( some of which are surprisingly smart) people dont understand the concept of running the biggest company in the world.
They expect you to make changes and bend over and take it up the ass. They have NO BUSINESS SKILLS whatsoever.
Keep being inovative. As long as you make your MICROSOFT products work together like they have. Its all good.
P.S. Windows mobile 2003, did suck though! but thanks for 5.0
Hi everbody, just doing some reading and saw I made headlines...and then I saw everyone posting comments.
Thanks for your support!
as for the MICROSOFT haters...dont be jealous that I rule the world. Your just mad because you didn't think of it first.
PRETTY SOON EVERYONE WILL OWN A 360. and no one will have to use a SONY product again.
Does anyone want a job?
Bill,
Love the work with the foundation. You really are changing the world. I know you are helping our education system, but it needs a lot more. Get your rich buddies to create some tax write offs for themselves. If you ever need volunteers, I'm in. I do alot of volunteering in my area but nothing compares to your foundation. America needs your help.
Bill! Love the Software.
Bill, PayPal Me Money, Please?
scottmaximus23@gmail.com
Come on Bill, You know you want to.
Bill I know you're aware we're about 7 years over due for a pandemic. And I don't have to tell you fear may very easily turn to panic if our next pandemic is a bad one. If everyone knew that fear has a purpose, that it's an alarm clock to wake us up to get educated and prepared for what we very likely may face -- then they would take action and get prepared. However, a lot of people only think fear is to suffer or for entertainment (movies, games etc.) so they put off thinking about getting prepared, let alone doing it all because NO ONE is telling everyone how to correctly use their fear. You're Bill Gates. If you decided to get that message to the masses before the pandemic gets here, you could get millions of ostriches to pull their head out of the sand and get busy preparing for it.
HI EVERYBODY THI IS BILL GATES
I will paypal everyone $1000 that hates SONY.
post your emails
scottmaximus23@gmail.com I've sent you money...dont use them on drugs or Sony stuff. IF YOU MUST...BUY DRUGZ...they are less damaging than Sony products.
I once did crack I dont like to admit it, its embarrasing. I once bought a minidisc player...I new it was time to check into rehab.
All I want in Windows is CR or LF line ending support in Notepad and full Unicode support across the OS and all MS products. Oh yeah, it'd also be nice to pick one way that command line switches go. Having to figure out if i'm using a slash or a dash or whatever is a bother sometimes. Thanks in advance.
Grrr.... I can't see the video. Oh, and I Agree with you #45... Comment#23(Jarod) is a jack!$$.
HEY MAC FANBOYS!
I don't see Steve Jobs saying that he reads Engadget.
- imacomputa
I may prefer some of apples software (mainly iMovie) and i own an iPod, but i have to hand it to BIll, that hes a lot nicer guy than Steve Jobs. Bill has given so much of his money to charity, and I have yet to here of Jobs ever doing such a thing.
Nice work Bill!
Hi Bill!
Don't let any backdoors in the security system in Vista! The British authorities are dumb in this matter! :)
If you read this, Mr. Gates, rest assured that your Windows XP Pro has not crashed on me once yet - and I'm sure I do alot more on this computer than the average user.
LONG LIVE APPLE!!!
Heheh . . .ehhh. Yes Bill Gates, you know, changed the WORLD and everything, but I still hate Windows.
*Slaps self for surfing away on his boring beige dell box*
Maybe engadget should interview steve!
ewww windows
Hi Bill, If you really read engadget could you endorse my website for all professional bloggers? or at the very least adopt me? I'm serious
I love all windows products, i think they are great. Anybody that says it crashes too much or what not doesnt realize that it is most likely not the operating system, but usually another piece of software not made by microsoft that is crashing the system, or that is a hardware problem. People should consider these things before bashing microsoft for having problems!
Anyways i love my 360 and if you want to play me on perfect dark sometime on the weekends just send me a friend request to my name (nizzy1115), I'd love to see if you've got some game!
Also i agree about making an ipod killer. Please please please make one and release it before with holiday season this year. I would be supper happy!
AND if your feeling up to it, set some money aside to develope a PSP killer as well that interacts well with the 360 (maybe wifi like the ds, and you can use your same xbox live gamertag on the portable to get extra points.) I would deffenatly buy this too!
One last thing...Can you make the xbox 360 have a patch or something that allows you to save game demos to an external hard drive? This would be very nice as my 20 gig is almost filled and my external usb drive can only hold my music for my 360. :( (I dont like to stream my music, 10,000 songs is a bit laggy over my wifi when searching through them.)
Also, on the 360 can you make the playlists able to hold more songs? Its frustrating that i cant make a huge gaming playlist of say 1500 songs and just play them on random everytime i turn on my xbox.
Lastly, can we get a web browser for the 360 please please. Sometimes im too lazy to walk over to one of my pc's just to check the weather or something, and having it on the xbox so i never have to leave it would be awesome!
Well i hoped you read all my requests and i hope you consider atleast some of them because i know you would not just please me but thousands upon thousands more too! Keep up the good work!
-nizzy1115
http://nizzy1115.tripod.com/blog/
Matthew Baggett,
I have a valid, non-biased opinion: I agree with you :-)
#50 - has anyone asked him? I'd be interested... Although, of course, he does tend to be *making* the news these days instead... hehe.
Hello Bill
Its good that you are reading my comments.
Well, I am finding it hard to go all through the new stuff that's coming of with .net including vista, atlas,biztalk 2006.
Kudos on VS 2005, Mr. Gates. Seriously.
The interviewer is one of the worse i've every seen. What a lemon! No match for Rojas!
;)
/salute Engadget
/salute Bill
I dunno about you guys, but from the comments above, if I were Bill Gates, I'd be laughing my ass off right now.
Personally, I have no problems with Windows. It's caused me to have a job for quite some time. Nothing like the job security a Microsoft product (actually.. any software) produces.
Well, I gotta go restart.. Windows is telling me to restart after these 7 security updates (not joking).
PS: Bill, if you do read this.. I'd like you to autograph a 5 1/4" floppy I have of the original Windows.. you and anyone else from the 1970's era Microsoft.
I don't see Steve Jobs saying that he reads Engadget.
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yeah, he's busy running two companies... who's done more in the last 3 years hm?
so, i guess, the average networth on an engaget reader is like... 50K now?
Oh, Bill. We're so close, yet still so far.
Hmmm.... Engadget is cool and all, but it's recently lost it's top place in my browsing habits to other sites. Therefore, hearing that Bill Gates - the king of getting on trends late - is an Engadget reader is no suprise to me. Maybe in 3 years he will pick up an iPod.
How about giving me some money so I can buy the Intel Mac? I promise I will not speak ill of you from now on!
Ofcourse he reads engadget. The site rocks.
Btw. Thanx for .Net Bill. It just makes things easier.
Can't wait to see Vista.
Bill you should let some of us guys who help out a lot of people with their XP problems to be beta testers as we have a lot of things we know people would love to see and they are so small but we never have a voice.
#18 - It's a good job I use Linux & Opera, then. I thought I'd be outcast, but it looks like Mr Gates loves Linux like the rest of us!
Now, I'm a reasonable man. I think I'm fairly intelligent, too. Mr Gates must be the shrewdest businessman in the world because Microsoft products are not the best in the world. I'm not saying their the worst, or that I hate them, I just can't understand how they got to be the most prevaillant.
Like I said, I use Linux. I do this because it doesn't crash and doesn't leak memory. It's updated frequently so any bugs/security holes are fixed promptly. It's also free.
I'm not rich enough to be able to afford to BUY an operating system. Then, on top of that, Windows users need to BUY something like Office to read & write documents. Then they have to BUY any other software necessary for their purpose. Is it just me, or is everyone else in the world absolutely loaded? I can build a top spec PC for under 500, but it would then cost me twice that to put the basic software on it if it were MS.
Wisen up, Gates. Lower your prices and don't use your user-base as beta testers - test your software before releasing it.
If Vista were cheaper, my employer might be considering it instead of trying to choose which flavour of Linux to run their blade centres...
flim.
BILL GATES IS GOD!
On the flip side, I feel Engadget deserves a congratulatory Hear Hear!
The site has only been around a short while, and it is being read often by some of the most powerful folks in the industry.
Great work gentlemen.
I have to admit that i first heard about engadget from another big shot of the IT industry in Forbes. So it isn't a big surprise for me. keep up the good work engadget boys.
as for bill, he has done right and he has done wrong. the situation is neither black or white, but grey. if i were him, i'd just retreat about now. he's almost 50 , why don't enjoy life from now on?
I, James Manning, am a troll: james.manning@mchsi.com
Hey Bill
Pay for my tuition please. I attend the UW. You know.. The college you like to pour money into :D
Hi, Mr gates...i'm on XP...it is not that good...and.....losing billions on your first console means that your not that good at business...and making the 360 was just a bad move (financially)...and pay the EU fine.....everyone knows those papers were full of useless info
anyway if you do read this click my name URL and say hi in the forums
P.S is it true you stole the source code for the first Windows OS
We don't mean to toot our own horn or anything--but we will...
OMG maybe if I write a bunch of crap then he will read it!!11!1oneone
And although I didn't read the comments, I know there were some anti-Microsoft comments thrown in....
All I have to say about that most of you use XP and love it....also, Visual Studio fo' life! .Net REPRESENT!
Bill,
A couple of years ago, I nearly ran you over at an intersection in Seattle. It was fun, thanks for almost coming under my vehicle. Great reflexes!
In actuality, it would have been a great loss to the world if I had succeeded in running you over; You're a top man! Great company, but even greater foundation. I have the up-most respect for you for all that you and your family are doing.
May I ask you for one trivial favor? No More Borders In Windows. Please, go straight from the application menu to the drop-shadow. I realize it is mac-style, but it has to be done. Borders should not be there in Vista.
What else? I'm a graphics artist; Give me a job.. or get me signed to a record label. Something, do it! ..or I'll bring my car to Mercer Island.
Bill gates, you are a homo.
I love engadget.
lolz all these people claiming to be Mr Gates.
Mr Gates I've sent you a few emails I know you don't answer emails to billg@microsoft.com probably but please look at emails from tverbrug@etc... dunno if u still have them I'll send another. It's really important.
Thanks
Hello everyone it's Bill stfu
hey bill, i have a question for you, why do you hate sony so much when they use your software on their pc's??? is it just to do with the whole playstation vs xbox 360 ? please reply to this, i am very interested to see why.
thnx, rosst, 13