Windows Vista Team Blog : Introducing Windows 7.
Maybe they’re running out of names? Or maybe they’ve realised that the number system makes sense.
Of course, Mac OS is at version ten. Windows is at seven. Ten is greater than seven. Make your own conclusions about that.
I received this in an e-mail from one of my friends, and I thought I’d put it up for debate, I think it’s funnily accurate about Microsoft though!
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One of my favourite quotes by Lawrence Lessig. While giving a talk about Free Culture, he said this,
Let’s talk about software patents. There’s a guy, Mr. Gates, who’s brilliant, right? He’s brilliant. A brilliant business man; he has some insights, he is even a brilliant policy maker. Here’s what he wrote about software patents: “If people had understood how patents would be granted when most of today’s ideas were invented and had taken out patents, the industry would be at a complete standstill today.” Here’s the first thing I’m sure you’ve read of Bill Gates that you all 100 percent agree with. Gates is right. He is absolutely right. Then we shift into the genius business man: “The solution is patenting as much as we can. A future startup with no patents of its own will be forced to pay whatever price the giants choose to impose. That price might be high. Established companies have an interest in excluding future competitors.” Excluding future competitors.
This is from episode 149 of TWiT. John C. Dvorak tells a story about Bill Gates.