Bill Gates tries to install Movie Maker (2003)

[rcjordan]

https://www.techemails.com/p/bill-gates-tries-to-install-movie-maker

[ergophobe]

Are those vetted in any way? It sounds so like MS, but then again, a good fake would too.

Assuming it is genuine, looking at other Gates emails about Apple and such, I double down on my comments the other day that Gates had a better eye for MS's problems than Ballmer and might have prevented Chrome from taking over the web. Maybe.

I know, that's basically, the same argument as, "If Kennedy had lived, we would not have gotten so involved in Vietnam."

[Brad]

I don't know how good Gates was or would have been, but Ballmer was bad news for MS.

[rcjordan]

>I don't know how good Gates was

I was browsing in '93 --early enough that I actually paid for an early version of Mosiac (Netscape Navigator).  Gates *really* impressed me as a CEO when he saw the impact browsing would have and called "All Hands On Deck!! NOW!!" at MS.  For months, the sole focus of development was to create Internet Explorer  (and then bundle it with Windows).  Reports said more than a few employees were sleeping under their desks.

[rcjordan]

https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/sam-altman-indicated-its-impossible-to-create-chatgpt-without-copyrighted-material

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