Comments on: Bill Gates’ Retirement To Do List

By: nik

nik — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 11:38:57 +0000

@Ron: I agree with Jasper – I think you will find that most people here admire the man in at least some form

By: Jasper

Jasper — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 11:10:07 +0000

@Ron: Thanks for your time to share that.
Please read the articlee and 25 comments again, and tell me where Bill or Microsoft is bashed. All I read is some fun, humour and pokes to the guy we love to hate, while comfortably working with Windows, Office and Outlook…

By: Wakie Wang

Wakie Wang — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 15:08:22 +0000

Wish you good in your future and do more career,I believe you are a hero of me .YOu are always my idol.

By: Ron Smith

Ron Smith — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 01:52:37 +0000

I find it interesting how so many people with such huge amounts of self described intellectual horsepower can find so much time in their busy days to bash Gates and Microsoft, yet oddly fail to provide a realistic competitive alternative. Apple – cute product, pitiful market share. Open Source – an idea Stalin must love and about as successful. Mozilla, Opera, Safari, etc. – how you can lose when browsers are free? From a business perspective it is cute how you all get your panties in a bunch over someone who was an industry leader, revolutionized personal computing, built the most successful company in the history of the world and in his retirement has revolutionized philanthropy and what it means to be wealthy. I am sure you would find him more hip if he spent his wealth on America’s cup racing yachts or buying up real estate in SoCal. I know – Apple was the first at everything, Microsoft has no talent and steals everyone else’s ideas, Windows sucks and people only use it because they have been forced to and on and on and on. There is a mutli-billion software industry globally with more users and more needs than anyone could imagine 10 years ago. We live in historically open global economy. There are more people with PCs and the wherewithal to use them than ever before. Yet with all this market share in play, in open markets, with virtually every company, household and public institution relying daily on information technology, the self proclaimed technology ‘underground’ has yet to make a dent, yet to field a viable alternative, yet to build a company that can compete without government intervention and EU regulators and yet to build a better mouse trap. The last time I checked, people were free to spend their money as they see fit and for businesses, governments and personal use IT is a strategic investment. Instead of sitting on the side lines whining, why don’t you create something that is worthwhile and viable and compete in the open market. Come out from under your rock (or your mother’s basement) and realize that we live in a competitive global economy that welcomes with open arms anything that makes their lives easier, their businesses more competitive or the productivity more efficient. It is not like we are talking about railroads, cable, wireless TelCom or any other industry with a huge barrier to entry. It is an Operating System – anyone in the world is free to change at any time for any reason. If you have the answer, why is no one buying? If IE is so bad and Netscape, Mozilla, Opera, etc. is so much better, why the need for the government to step in and ‘level the playing field? How about because a browser is a commodity and for the average person the actual browser makes about as much difference as the company that milled their flour. Oh, look, Bill Gates created an industry and is making money; I want to make money – the world owes me a spot on the web… How about instead of crying like school girls you suck it up, find the next break through technology, leverage it in a way that everyone can appreciate and use and make your own way in the world. I would be embarrassed if all I could do was look at a successful company and make my living by pandering to the ‘have-nots’ who will flock to your website and read your blog and join a web-wide pity party to share their feelings and find reassurance that the reason they are sharing a condo with 3 ‘buddies’ and riding their scooters to work everyday is because the Military-Industrial complex got together and handed the IT world to Bill Gates and Microsoft and have spent their every waking moment ensuring that your laundry list of ‘obviously superior’ products fail to reach more than 5 of every 100 desktops or servers in the world. Mommy – it is a big, tough, mean world out there and Bill Gates won’t let me make billions (which I deserve because I have an email address and an internet connection). Enjoy your pity party and rest assured who and whatever follows in the footsteps of Microsoft and Bill Gates will provide a whole new opportunity for you to join in a global ‘circle-jerk 2.0′ and blame someone else for you inability to compete.

By: bobby

bobby — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 19:29:52 +0000

switch to a mac.

By: Pedro Machado Santa

Pedro Machado Santa — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 07:02:55 +0000

11. Buy an iPod/iPhone.

By: Joshua

Joshua — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 05:21:27 +0000

Releasing that sex tape!

By: Rahul Kumar

Rahul Kumar — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 04:42:41 +0000

k…Gmail is overrated. You can say web-based Windows Live Hotmail sucks, but Microsoft created a fantastic application (Windows Live Mail) for free or Outlook (for Bill) to use to check mail.

By: Peter Boot

Peter Boot — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 01:35:28 +0000

Buy the rights to the game Monopoly

By: Russell

Russell — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 00:47:08 +0000

Switch to Ubuntu :)

By: Bob

Bob — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 00:22:57 +0000

[...] Tell us if he owns Apple (indirectly)

By: nik

nik — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 22:31:02 +0000

We might have to make the top 10 list a Friday afternoon TCIT feature :)

By: Bill Gates retirement to-do list | mattrutherford.com

Bill Gates retirement to-do list | mattrutherford.com — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 22:05:31 +0000

[...] Finally – Bill Gates can get round to his retirement to-do list [...]

By: shane blyth

shane blyth — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 21:00:26 +0000

!8: Buy a Zune and “join the social”
17: Find out what “Join the Social” is/means.

By: Bill Gates | André Friedrichs’ Web site | bill gates

Bill Gates | André Friedrichs’ Web site | bill gates — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 20:31:46 +0000

[...] Bill Gates [...]

By: Rob Olson

Rob Olson — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 18:17:27 +0000

haha good post Nik.

17. Buy iPod and install iTunes.

By: Charlie

Charlie — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 18:11:35 +0000

@Ron (4)

I wonder… I have a comp sci degree and a programming job with a decent salary that is well above the national average, and I own my home and have retirement accounts and the whole bit, but my net worth while trending upward, is negative (mostly because of student loans).

By: Web Analytics Blog

Web Analytics Blog — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 18:07:07 +0000

“7. Migrate from Twitter to Friendfeed with everybody else”

I smell Mike here! Why is everyone at TechCrunch against Twitter!??

No.3 was funny :P ! The article post should have taken pre-fix [JustForFun]! Is this post trying to mock Bill or seriously provide to do list? I wonder!

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FK JOKE CORNER - Page 216 - Malayalam Cinema Forum — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 18:06:21 +0000

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By: dave mcclure

dave mcclure — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 18:04:20 +0000

21. work with Melinda on spec for Microsoft Bob v2.0

By: lpdahito

lpdahito — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 15:11:00 +0000

Lol… this is definitely good stuff !!!!

By: kc

kc — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 14:09:29 +0000

11. Try living like a poor by giving your money to the poor. -Future-

By: Ron Garret

Ron Garret — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 07:09:42 +0000

Just noticed that the stat is from 1999, but the same argument applies, just with slightly different numbers.

By: Ron Garret

Ron Garret — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 07:08:39 +0000

Bill’s wealth can’t possibly be the same as the bottom 45% of U.S households. Bill’s net worth is ~$50B. There are ~300M people in the U.S., so about ~135M in the bottom 45%. That would be an average net worth of $370 per person in the bottom 45%. The bottom 45% in the U.S. is poor, but it’s not that poor.

By: karthik reddy

karthik reddy — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 06:48:03 +0000

trace the guy who famously threw the apple pie on him and give him the bird