A Silicon Valley Christmas Tale
Every geek
Down in Geek-ville
Liked searching a lot …
But Bill Gates,
Who lived just north of Geek-ville,
Did NOT!
Bill Gates hated searching and search advertising!
Now, please don’t ask why. It’s not that surprising.
It could be his brain had slowed up with age.
It could be, perhaps, that he loathed Brin and Page.
But I think that the most likely reason of all,
Was his wallet was feeling 2 sizes too small.
But,
Whatever the reason,
His wallet or brain,
By Jan of ’08 he was feeling the pain.
Looking down on the web with a Gatesian stare,
At the billions of people just becoming aware,
That web search NOT windows was the new way to think.
That it’s really more fun to surf popular links!
For,
Tomorrow, he knew …
That some Google shareholder
Would make many more billions
Than him or Steve Ballmer.
They’d start BIGGER foundations
To improve world health
And they might even give away
MORE of their wealth!
….
For the whole story press this link A Silicon Valley Christmas Tale。
最有意识的是看到下面的一篇评论:
What makes this very interesting is the comment below:
Horrible. Whoever had the time to write this isn’t nearly 1/1000th as smart as Bill and will never ever reach the heights that Bill did.
It is very easy to sit and make fun of Microsoft and how they fail to become the leader in Search. Should Bill had waited until 1998 to started a Search engine instead of his operating system?
Windows powers millions of computers worldwide.
Before the majority of people can enjoy those amazing Google results, they actually fire up a computer that his running because of what Bill, Paul and the thousands of Microsoft employees have learned and done over the last few decades.
And please save us from “Apple would have done or Linux would have”.
A couple of smart teens who are currently working on what will be the future of Search (/Find or whatever you call it). When they bring it to us The same author will sit down and “fable” about how sad Page and Brin are that they missed the boat.
Some make History. Some write History. The rest read History. Unfortunately most of those who write today should retire they “plume”.
的确，今天的互联网已经逐渐把微软这个软件巨人拖累，当人们都在惊叹google这样的公司的时候，有又谁会想起微软！
没有微软也许计算机并不会像今天这样普及。就像评论中说到的一样：
Before the majority of people can enjoy those amazing Google results, they actually fire up a computer that his running because of what Bill, Paul and the thousands of Microsoft employees have learned and done over the last few decades.
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