Bill Gates' original mission for Microsoft of putting "a computer on every desk and in every home" "always bothered" current CEO Satya Nadella - Microsoft CEO.
“It always bothered me that we confused an enduring mission with a temporal goal,” he mused in an interview with USA TODAY.
yeah well..
Jayden Walker
Mission accomplished. I have computers coming out of my fucking ears. There are microcontrollers in my MicroSD cards for fucks sake.
Charles Nelson
Weird that's the exact same statement my company has for their product.
Levi Fisher
I hate that he's saying the same thing in a way
Sebastian Brown
Sort of, a lot of their new software and services are cross platform and some of their dev tools are more Linux and Mac friendly.
Jason Thompson
I meant as ideology. They both want more empowerment etc etc.
John Ross
Bill Gates already achieved that goal years ago. You need to make a new one.
Owen Murphy
I know but what Nadella says comes down to the same
Ian Richardson
"To empower every terrorist and every terrorist organisation to achieve more" >where were you when you realized microsoft empowers isis?
Wyatt Allen
So instead of a real goal, you get something that you can't measure as your goal.
This is why the modern world is failing.
Noah Murphy
lol are you discussing a CIA/NSA backed project for real?
Ryder Williams
and steve jobs took all the credit
Alexander Robinson
But Gary Kildall did all the hard work.
Henry Barnes
both yes
Easton Moore
knife manufacturers empower murderers ban knives
...oh wait, brits are succeeded in it
Dominic Russell
*brits succeeded
Xavier Morgan
>It always bothered me that we confused an enduring mission with a temporal goal what a fucking retard
Jonathan Lewis
>yeah well.. "Yeah well" what? Nadella is right, it was a temporal goal, not only will you find a computer in every first world house, but multiple. Third world countries even have large mobile computing markets.
Nathaniel Peterson
Empowerment tho
Gavin Hill
The subject was more about how one described the future and how the other just put more detail into the promotion of it.
Thomas Moore
What are he computing market doing out of it?
Brody Carter
It's ok rajesh
Andrew Evans
You can't measure your success and can't measure your failure.