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@Anon Ymous
You should look into the figures like:
Sales of xbox 360 in india http://www.gameguru.in/features/2007/19/sales-of-xbox-360-in-india-the-real-story/

Sony’s marketing team has taken aim at Microsoft’s Xbox 360 console in a recent press release, branding the console as too expensive and hyping the PlayStation 3 (PS3) as the best offer for your money. Specifically, Sony targeted the Xbox 360 Arcade unit, which it valued as $199. The press release claims that to get all the features of a standard 80GB PS3 model (at $399) for the Xbox 360 Arcade, you would need to spend between $449 and $499.

From the source – http://www.ioi.in/technical-stuff/62137-sony-xbox-360-too-expensive.html

@Sameer
You may call their bad luck.
I don’t know why they wants to copy the things instead of developing their native ideas.
for example:
Though yahoo search is lagging behind the google but “flickr” is perfect and times better than picasa,moreover they are earning form their “pro” accounts.

Any way due to Bill Gates millions of people have a job in computer. He made the things made fast due to his technical and business mind.

He is a great person to history.

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Nice one. Liked it. Points 5,6 & 7 are so true. Used Win ME for years, and that’s the best Windows OS I’ve ever used.
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Top 10 mistakes of Bill Gates http://bit.ly/4IdRBf

I’ll remember M$ for buying ($300 Million) my darling, HotMail (actually HoTMaiL), from the Indian dude who created it using FreeBSD, and then they fu*ked it up by moving everything over to Windows NT Server and future server editions. Hotmail now sucks royally!!
The battles M$ had with software tools vendor Borland (of Turbo Pascal, Turbo C, Delphi, Quattro Pro, Paradox database, etc.) which was lead by the great mathemetician, Phillipe Khan, were legendary. M$ stole Anders Heilsberg from Borland and he was the brains behind C#.
The use of its Windoze monopoly to literally screw Corel (who bought WordPerfect from WordPerfect Corp. in Orem Utah, and Quattro Pro from Borland who previously screwed up paying big dollars for Ashton Tate’s venerable DBase database app), which ultimately led to it’s founder, Micheal Cowpland of Ottawa, Canada — my hometown — to leave his baby.
They took Stack’s know how in compression technology and left them out to dry by implementing a variation of Zip.
As for Netscape, well how can u compete with a free browser in Windows? But Netscape’s server products were EXPENSIVE though.
Also, back in the late 80s/early 90s when Samna Ami Pro (now Lotus Word Pro) was new on the block, it was WAY BETTER than MS Word. The folks at M$ weren’t pleased that these guys produced a better package on THEIR platform (Windoze) than they (M$) could. M$ would use this monopoly to keep secret APIs from other developers and that’s probably why Lotus 1-2-3 & WordPerfect sucked when they came out with Windoze versions.

M$’s #1 mistake?? Hiring Steve Ballmer. What a frigging anti-competitive twit!!
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One of the best thing to come out of M$ IMHO was Active Server Pages. That was a pioneering technology and it made server side development fun and easy. SQL Server 7 and onwards is also AMAZING. I haven’t used Windows Server 2008, but I hear it rocks. But it’s too expensive as well as the accompanying software.
Outlook Express (although a little loose on security) was probably one of the freshest email clients to come out in a looong time when it came on the scene. I prefer it to Outlook (bloated).
But back to mistakes…
Using their monopoly to stiffle competition in the marketplace. If you were Dell, Compaq or HP, you had to pay a license for every PC manufactured. WTF??
And IBM was clueless on how to mass market OS/2. Their blunders have a lot to do with M$’s dominance. I just wish they’d open source Lotus Word Pro and Lotus 1-2-3. Had they done this a looong time ago, MS Office wouldn’t be so dominant.
.-= Maxwell´s last blog ..10 Great Open Source Windows apps =-.

Most of you are idiots. Microsoft succeeded at what every corporation of its time was trying to – creating a monopoly. They were better positioned and had the better offerings. The main workstation OS for corporations is Windows, the main server os for corporations is Windows. Up until recently the main smartphone OS for mobile phones was… wait for it, wait for it – Windows. It seems to me that they have done very well for themselves and for corporations that needed a supported OS.

As for the XBOX and the XBOX 360 they are the #1 next gen console. They continually add features while Sony takes away features from the PS3. The Wii doesnt count as it isnt a next gen console. I dont really care what the 10 people in India who own a gaming console have to say about it.

In Bills eyes he knows what mistakes he made and he also knows how much money you paid him for those mistakes. He was laughing all the way to the bank.

Killing DOS was a mistake? LOL That statement alone shows such technical ignorance.

This is the lamest tech blog I have ever seen.

This is such a terrible article. I would point out all the flaws in it, but it would take too long…

Another thing that’s a clear and present danger…
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in bed with agra-business giant, Monsanto, to create GM seeds that are not beneficial to the little farmer here in Africa.
Monsanto is legendary for its impunity in the GM seeds realm. They sell u the seeds, and then you’re DEPENDENT on them for more seeds and it takes a while for your soil/land to recover. Truly sinister.
WTF is Gates doing partnering with Monsanto??
This is BAD NEWS for the developing world and some Kenyan scientists have pointed this out!! But is anybody listening??

I agree that Bill opened up countless opportunities to the world, even to those who now criticize him. And he will have a notable place in history. However, judging from the mistakes he’d made, as elaborated in this post, it looks like he has peaked at some point and now is on his down. Or, to put it less painfully, people who are way smarter than him have surfaced and taken the limelight.

Interesting facts about Mr. Bill Gates

Thanks for sharing

nice article..

something to learn.
thanks for sharing.

still he is rich. they say good people do not make history.

Something’s wrong with this article. Most of it, I think.

Some of these so called mistakes are no mistakes at all. Microsoft should have killed DOS at the moment i386-based computers came to market. DOS did not even support multitasking.

By the way, Windows Mobile was indeed developed from the ground up, initally labeled as Windows CE — invented for handheld PCs and Pocket PCs (and smartphones by the time its name switched to “Windows Mobile”); Developing Windows CE from the ground up was a necessary step in order to support different computer architectures (ARM, MIPS, SH3, etc), none of which were supported by the evolving PC versions of windows we all know.

In fact, Windows CE only supported a small subset of the Win32 API. Chances are using this subset instead of a completely new operating system had something to do with having a well known development environment (eMbedded Visual C++), allowing you to port Windows-dependent software more quickly?

Anyway, I agree with an Confused Little Man: more mistakes has made the author by writing this article than Gates himself.

Is this really a tech blog? I honestly believe this article is only helping to spread ignorance among readers. Please check some facts before rushing to deliver by the deadline.

Sorry but this article is for who dont know much about computers.

do you have a mobile? yes you sure have.

you can carry it any where, you can browse, you can use emails.
you know what? when windows mobile was released there was not a single mobile os was available which could have provided so many feature in mobile. mobile is revolution. and i cant find bill gates wrong in releasing windows mobile

And how many out there know commands of dos??
Why should we use dos when we have GUI os?
and who said bill gates let DOS die.
Just press win+r enter ‘CMD’ and press enter. and miracle your dead old pal is still there. “ALIVE”.

Or if you want to use only dos then start your computer in safe mode with command prompt
Wake up dude……………

and you know what this Article is pure solid piece of shit….

you dont even mentioned about war between steves jobs and bill gates.

In my opinion the biggest mistake of Bill Gates was the ” Software Monopoly” that led him to face his destruction all by his own hands and i am sure that this kind of thing will not be followed by “Google”, which really seems to become in very near future like buying all its competitors like “Microsoft”. Thanks man and great post…

I didn’t know that Mr.Richi Rich can make that big mistakes in his carrier and it amazing to see that with so much wiseness and intelligence he was able to do mistakes that no other competitors will ever have thought to do. Thanks man and keep on posting like this…

I really like your work in this post, you have shared with us some great information in it that we really didn’t knew it before. Thanks for the post….

hi there here mistakes that mcrosoft mad limit netbook ssd too 64 gb won allow faster hard drive hybride ssd/hdd combo drive no ssd for windows soo i go with apple and there is no portable x-box buy now i want a portabal 3D x-box with out 3D glasses

If Bill Gates stopped working long enough to read this post he would lose more money the any of us could make in are life time.

Wow, this is pretty uneducated.

The man created a software monopoly…

He has not, there is no software that microsoft has that no other company has in one form or another.

Bill Gates did not consider opensource…

So?? Neither has apple, or ea games. They are both successful company’s.

He let DOS die. It was a promising OS…

No it wasn’t. It had no multitasking, essential nowadays for any modern OS, no memory protection, no DirectX or OpenGL, so on, so forth. It was only stable because it didn’t do much.

Bill Gates did not think of cloud computing…

I am pretty sure that Windows Azure is cloud computing.

The Xbox on the other hand is too pricey for a gaming console…

The Wii is cheaper, but not by much, and it is far less powerful than the other two.
The PS3 is waaay more expensive than the 360.

In my opinion, security or rather the lack of it was the biggest mistake Microsoft ever made. Back when MS was starting to compete for business networks against Novell and Banyan, they made the decision to emphasize performance over security. By stripping out all the security protection, they were able to juice their performance benchmarks. We in the IT department tried to argue the point, but MS wined & dined the top brass, took them to Gartner Group conferences, and convinced them that a complete Microsoft makeover was the only way to go. Banyan marketing wasn’t much help. It was once said that if Banyan marketing was in charge of KFC, their slogan would be “Hot, Dead Chicken, Get Some Now!”

I enjoyed pulling the MS engineers chain by firing up a RedHat Linux PC in the testlab where new versions of MS software was tested before deployment. “Just keeping our options open”, I would tell them. Those were the good ol’ days.

Well this was not biased at all….(obvious sarcasm)

good review!

Great summary of his mistakes. The main problem of the company is being unable to reorganize itself in accordance with the speed of change in information technologies. It feels like they fail to understand user needs. Google tries to create programs faster, smaller and requiring less system performance, where as Microsoft programs need better, faster, expensive computers. They missed the social network expansion, even though they had MSN Messenger, which was the most popular social networking program once. Google created gtalk which gives great performance even with video conferencing. You do not have to install anything, it’s fully browser based. For Live messenger on the other side, you have to download more than 100 mbs to get a slow, crashing, unstable program full of ads, with a weak user interface. A lot of change has to be made within the company, or Microsoft will not last long…

You have listed probably left out the biggest blunder of them all. Bill Gates very conveniently ignored the potent power of the Internet.

@Trunx That was his mistake but he still rules with IE. Finger crossed for opensource days!

Bill Gates is not perfect. Committing mistakes is part of life. He is very successful and very rich though…

” No Windows, No Gates, It is OPEN; No Bill, It is FREE ”

-Sajal Kayan

Use free Linux if you wanna save money or buy a Mac if you have money. Let the Microsoft’s boot-lickers (also known as MVPs) use Windows and press ctrl + alt + del and install anti malwares, anti virus, anti blah blah blah…

@Zed, the points listed above are just for learning’s

i dunt agree with you fully!

How come windows mobile not innovative ?
Who has criticized Windows 7 ?

But the 10 hits made the guy turn an billionaire!

As the riches man, he also help the poor in Africa,
By the way, nice info, and thanks for share

I only really agree with point 8 (lack of search). The others aren’t true failures/mistakes. Yes, Me sucked ass, but it was a time filler until 2K came out, then XP.

That’s true

i agree.

… and Don’t forget to Err is human So BG also

@honey: totally bullshit article, gates is a man who made dream happen for non technical peoples to use computers frequently, bing is gaining popularity stealing shares form google,w8 looks great, office cloud good and offcourse sales of win 7 and xbox kinnect is a record.

@table linens: mine too
@mariah: use open source and killl ur time and money on support, and mac is offcourse is not for techies its for high schoolers

now blah blah blah and ha ha ha

As long as I reckon, none of them were considered to be a great mistakes! For all the positive sides there always been a negative side! He is a legend in means of achieving his goal as a single man and as a corporation. If Linux is the best open-source ever how many people using it? there is always been a challenge between Security-Usability-Cost at-least he focused on usability and made a common people like me to think about other two constrains!However, he is still a visionary who has at-least seen the future for couple of decades and made it possible.Apart from,Often less knowledge about other matters – Refer his comments on General motors and rebuttals on them! Couple of decades after who knows! will there be windows? Linux? Mac? or any other open source! World is changing rapidly in that course he needs to given by life time achievement noble price, if one going to exist so!

this is too stupid

This seems to be a somewhat ill-researched article. Some of the mistakes are not actually mistakes, while others aren’t quite accurate. Moreover, it doesn’t get to the core of what the mistakes are, rather it just glosses over some observations.

“1. Bill Gates is still fighting with lawsuits.”

No, Microsoft soft is. Bill Gates is a person, Microsoft is a business entity, legally they are very different. Bill Gates does not attend court every date to defend himself, Microsoft’s legal representation handles the proceedings.

“2. Bill Gates did not consider opensource.”
How many open source Operating Systems are worth anywhere as much as Windows? Ummm…. None… What does tha tell you?

“3. The Windows OS made Mr. Gates the richest man in the world. But its latest iteration is bombarded with lots of negative criticisms.”
All versions of Windows are bombarded negative criticisms when they’re first released…

“8. He ignored search” – Microsoft’s Bing is one of the three most commonly used Search Engines along with Google and Yahoo. Prior to Bing there was MSN Search so it’s not like Microsoft completely neglected online search.

And I could probably go on but I’m out of time…

I only read the first 3 and I am already borred, come on. Let me tell you one little secret. He doesn’t care.
He’s (as stated in one of em) the richest man on earth… Law suites? He probably laughs at em and if his OS isn’t working well, there are plenty of people that will buy it anyways, besides, what laptop or computer doesn’t get sold with windows standard on it?

Nice Information and worth considerable by Bill Gates however what he has done so far is still great

oh my god… how olld are u? 25??? wonderfull posts? cloud computing? Hey you are a marketing man or what else? !?!? What a stupid post…ahahaha

@Maxwell
“M$’s #1 mistake?? Hiring Steve Ballmer. ”

This is the problem of Microsoft now….

Al principio pensé que el artículo era una basura, hasta que vi la fecha: 15 Marzo 2009. Pues resulta que han pasado muchas cosas desde entonces:
windows millenium: fue un error como el windows vista, pero luego con xp en el primer caso y win7 en el segundo, esos errores se olvidan :p
DOS: lo ejecuto con cmd.exe desde mi win7 cuando quiero hacer algo desde consola (casi nunca).
Zune: ahora tenemos al windows phone que utiliza la base del software del zune y en reemplazo de windows mobile que sí fue un gravísimo error, dejando a MS al fondo de la tabla de OS para dispositivos móviles.
Xbox: una de las consolas más exitosas del momento y un éxito mayor con el kinect.
Bing: un buen buscador, incrementando su cuota de mercado.
Cloud computing: Dos cosas: azure y office 365.

Even with all this… MS WIN still being the most used OS in planet! I use, all my friends, all people with health and good vision too! Linux is good for some purposes. For all other ones… Windows take the place ALWAYS!