Talking of which...
Can someone please tell me why Bill Gates is so worried about the $100 laptop? One would expect some amount of dignity from the world's richest man, but no. Although I have been using Micosoft products all my life (and no matter what the Open Source guys say, the software are brilliant), but Gates strikes me as a spoilt brat whose father has given him an expensive Lady Godiva chocolate, but is angry that the neighbour's kid has got a Mars bar.
The $100 laptop, developed by Nicholas Negroponte's MIT Media Lab is openly backed by Google's Larry Page. And as we have seen in the previous post, Gates has every reason to fear Google's dominance. Instead of the swift taking over of the world that Oracle's Larry Ellison had once very bravely promised, Google has gone about its task slowly, but with mercenary precision.
It would be a fallacy to predict the outcome of Google-Microsoft war (by the way, where's Yahoo!?). Yet, the odds are greatly stacked in favour of Google. Anyone who has tried Windows Live services will tell you why.
I am about $52 billion poorer than Mr Gates, but here is a small piece of advice from one of your customers -- please do not underestimate the power of innovation, even if it means it uses a hand crank for power, and even if it means it was not developed at Redmond.
Can someone please tell me why Bill Gates is so worried about the $100 laptop? One would expect some amount of dignity from the world's richest man, but no. Although I have been using Micosoft products all my life (and no matter what the Open Source guys say, the software are brilliant), but Gates strikes me as a spoilt brat whose father has given him an expensive Lady Godiva chocolate, but is angry that the neighbour's kid has got a Mars bar.
The $100 laptop, developed by Nicholas Negroponte's MIT Media Lab is openly backed by Google's Larry Page. And as we have seen in the previous post, Gates has every reason to fear Google's dominance. Instead of the swift taking over of the world that Oracle's Larry Ellison had once very bravely promised, Google has gone about its task slowly, but with mercenary precision.
It would be a fallacy to predict the outcome of Google-Microsoft war (by the way, where's Yahoo!?). Yet, the odds are greatly stacked in favour of Google. Anyone who has tried Windows Live services will tell you why.
I am about $52 billion poorer than Mr Gates, but here is a small piece of advice from one of your customers -- please do not underestimate the power of innovation, even if it means it uses a hand crank for power, and even if it means it was not developed at Redmond.
posted by Sachin Kalbag at 5:27 am
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