Top 10 mistakes of Bill Gates
Bill Gates is considered as a great man. Many people look up to him. And a lot of people are inspired by his life. But then again like any other human being he also has his own mistakes. Here are the top 10 mistakes of Bill Gates. 
- The man created a software monopoly and in return he got so many lawsuits for it.Bill Gates is still fighting with lawsuits.The source on wikipedia clearly stated that
United States v. Microsoft was a set of consolidated civil actions filed against Microsoft Corporation on May 18, 1998 by the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) and 20 U.S. states. Joel I. Klein was the lead prosecutor.The trial started on May 18, 1998 with the U.S. Justice Department and the Attorneys General of twenty U.S. states suing Microsoft for illegally thwarting competition in order to protect and extend its software monopoly.
- Bill Gates did not consider opensource. His business strategies always counter opensource principles and paradigm.You may be interested in his open-source debate In a Fortune magazine he clearly says that
It’s easier for our software to compete with Linux when there’s piracy than when there’s not.
- The Windows OS made Mr. Gates the richest man in the world. But its latest iteration is bombarded with lots of negative criticisms.
- He allowed Windows Mobile to happen. Did he run out of innovative ideas so he settled for a miniature Windows OS for mobile phone. He could have put up a team to design the OS from ground up.
- He let DOS die. It was a promising OS and a very stable one.
- Bill Gates did not think of cloud computing probably because of his proprietary Windows OS. But this is definitely one of his biggest mistakes.
- He allowed Windows Millennium edition to be released. The OS was definitely a reflection of the lack of talents from Microsoft. It failed the expectation of the people. It was premature.
- He ignored search. Look what happened to Google now. Bill Gates already made some moves about search in the end of the 90s and it was definitely a mistake to trash it.Scobleizer once revealed in his post that
Look at my last post. Now read this one over on LiveSide. It’s a short report that Microsoft executives are bragging to MVPs that “we’re in it to win.”
I don’t think Microsoft is. The words are empty. Microsoft’s Internet execution sucks (on whole). Its search sucks. Its advertising sucks (look at that last post again). If that’s “in it to win” then I don’t get it. I saw a bunch of posts similar to the one on LiveSide coming out of the MVP Summit. I didn’t post any of them to my link blog for a reason: All were air, no real demonstrations of how Microsoft is going to lead.
- The Microsoft Zune is a mistake. A lot of money poured into its development but yet it did not yield enough profit.John Biggs from Crunchgear had a poetic post on “Who killed Microsoft?”.Some of the extract are as follows:
Who killed Microsoft? Why did all those jobs get lost?
“Not I,” said the Zune fanboy, “I got Zune, I’m no iToy Sure it didn’t do too much and too bad my girlfriend bought a Touch now we’re iTunes all the way what else do I have to say?”
- The Xbox on the other hand is too pricey for a gaming console and because of this; people go for other brands- the cheaper ones.This is only reason why Xbox price set to drop in war with Sony’s PS3 and Nintendo’s top-selling Wii. Those are the top 10 mistakes of Bill Gates. These might be some of the negative side of the guy but these will never take away his greatness.
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March 15th, 2009 at 3:33 pm
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March 17th, 2009 at 10:44 pm
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March 26th, 2009 at 2:15 pm
Sorry but a lot of this opinion. And as a fact, one that I cannot support with facts at this time(do the research though), xbox and 360 are some of the most successful and currently most popular and best consoles of all time.
March 26th, 2009 at 7:14 pm
@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/
From the source – http://www.ioi.in/technical-stuff/62137-sony-xbox-360-too-expensive.html
April 8th, 2009 at 2:52 pm
You have listed probably left out the biggest blunder of them all. Bill Gates very conveniently ignored the potent power of the Internet.
Since, they were late bloomers in the internet era, most of their attempts at gathering momentum in the online space have either been thwarted or closed down or just barely surviving. Example their attempt at creating a successful answer to Google search viz. Microsoft Live.
Additionally, it would be worth seeing how the company carries itself forward with most of the founding members assuming a non-executive role.
April 8th, 2009 at 8:01 pm
@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.
May 22nd, 2009 at 7:02 am
Great read, I look forward to more
September 30th, 2009 at 1:12 pm
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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December 5th, 2009 at 8:38 pm
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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February 23rd, 2010 at 12:25 am
I’ll remember M$ for buying ($300 Million) my darling, HotMail (actually HoTMaiL), from the Indian dude who created it using FreeBSD, and then they fu*ked it up by moving everything over to Windows NT Server and future server editions. Hotmail now sucks royally!!
But Netscape’s server products were EXPENSIVE though.
The battles M$ 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?
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$’s #1 mistake?? Hiring Steve Ballmer. What a frigging anti-competitive twit!!
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February 23rd, 2010 at 12:36 am
@maxwell
The moment you write Microsoft as “M$” every things at the later are crystal clear for me.
No doubt they are famous in FOSS society for their monopoly and this is the only reason why we hate them.
On the other hand not all the products and services are poor, they too have some good products but in the ends the shine of their corporate policy and M$ ruined the total brand values
My wishes for them and i appreciate their “Good” products and “Good” works and whatever they do its their policy (but at-least they should change them according the new-age media and new-age of Internet)
February 23rd, 2010 at 1:18 am
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.
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