Okay, imagine, Bill Gates never created Microsoft. He was never interested in computers whatsoever.
Where would we be today? Using another type of computer? Would IBM break through as standard PCs? And then there's poor old Apple.... would the Apple Mac be more popular?
Wouldn't it be weird?!
What are your opinions???
If Bill gates had not done what he had done
some else would have done it
We would all be typing on a iMac. 
I agree with yagnyavalkya - Someone else would be top of the tree and we would not think it was weird at all. There might even be two or three competing operating systems and tehy would be cheaper and probably better than MS windows. They'd have to be to compete with each other
I'd imagine it would be exactly like today, except our computers would suck in a slightly different way.
Then our computers would suck even more. Go Windows!
then FREE AND OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE will dominate! we don't have to buy pirated softwares. all free.. 
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No, but a lot fewer of us would probably using computers. Bill Gates convinced everyone they needed one.
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No. Microsoft's abuse of their strong market position have killed innovation and prevented the formation of standards in a way not really seen in any other industry.
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Probably. I think Microsoft definitely filled a gap in the market and someone else (possibly IMB or Apple) would now be where MS is today. | yagnyavalkya wrote: |
If Bill gates had not done what he had done
some else would have done it |
Yes, I agree, someone else would have done it
But also, wouldn't IBM have broken through?!!
They were the only real people making computers when Bill Gates started M$
I think that's right, anyway...The personal computer would just now be becoming popular, and not either just a tool or just something geeks play with, unless someone else did the same thing microsoft did, that is.
One way it might have turned out would be several different manufacturers building PC's that are only compatible with their own, proprietary software (like macs are, or were). Supposing that software licensing was never thought of in the form it is in now, this incompatibility between systems would keep operating systems from competing, except as an extension of their hardware. We'd be saying "Personally, I like Gateway, because their OS has..." and "No, I like Compaq's OS better"
Yea I think IBM would have done it.
Yeah, agreed that someone else would have done it and we would have never noticed anything was weird or different.
Then would never Xbox has been created, and windows etc...
It would be pretty empty i think...
What if someone timetravels and knock Bill Gates so he dont starts to create Microsoft!
Hmm.... It is actually quite hard to imagine. Without Microsoft, we would have the few innovative things that Microsoft brought to us. They revolutionized the PC and convinced everyone they needed one. They created the Xbox and Halos 1, 2, and 3. They did give us many innovative things. Now, many people hate Microsoft because it is overpriced and rushed, but it is. But, without Bill Gates, who is to say that we would be where we are today. He did create the dominate operating system that we almost all use afterall. Don't get me wrong, I love linux. I run it on my Virtual PC. I am even considering makign my own little version (which probably won't happen in the near future).
But Bill Gtaes did bring us a new age!
-Nick 
P.S. Feel free to quote me. Just not misquote. OMG!!!! Macs..nooo..!!!!!111
Rofl... im not sure where we'd be... maybe we'd have some really really nice linux distro's.... like better than the current ones.
Somebody else would have helped and he didn't create Microsoft entirely himself did he?
Actually, Digital Research had a Disk Operating System (DOS) at the same time (if not before) as Bill Gates/Microsoft. DR-DOS was better in many ways. Mr. Gates was just better at marketing his version. IBM did release their own version of DOS as well. I still have all three here somewhere.
There was also a company (can't remeber their name or find my copy at the moment) that made a graphic overlay for DOS before Windows. Probably where Bill got the idea for Windows.
Maybe there are no Personal computer, and we all link to a mainframe computer with terminals without CPU.
I don't know if GUI will be developed in that environment. If no, using computer will be a very difficult thing, maybe like the movie matyx, all we can see is some strange character on screen.
I don't believe that mac would have taken over, for the same reason, that they didn't take over then... they are a little over their heads...(mac was always bettter than windows, but even then, at the begining, they were always 2nd...)
Someone else would probably fill in that space, although, i am not sure that computers would spread as fast as they did( consider, that microsoft itself "allowed" cracked versions of windows to be installed onto computers, just to increase its marketshare).
But i believe that the chances of beeing better without microsoft, are equal with the chances of beeing worse without them,,,
Pretty much the same position we were in 10 years ago. If we wouldn't have had Billy G then we would be having a messy fight currently about all different OSes and probably having even higher (or maybe even lower) prices.
Bill Gates actually created a solid market for everyone to evolve (thats a different thing that it then crushed the companies that came in its core path, and the core keeps changing as it grows and thats a different topic).
So somehow I feel we would have had Dell (PCs coming out on assembly lines). Maybe AT&T would be the king with the UNIX because it was being developed by them until something happened to the,
Birds singing everywhere, me and my macbook, sitting in a square surfing the web with wimax...
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OH, YEAH! Apple and Linux. Nothing else. That would be cool.
I sense bits of heaven suddenly. mmmm...
By the way, did I mention, that I'm a big Apple fan? 
i would be on a mac book pro
I am sure that someone else would have done it... i mean look at the technology we have these days.
There just wouldn't be a microsoft windows | dac_nip wrote: |
| then FREE AND OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE will dominate! we don't have to buy pirated softwares. all free.. |
I really would hope so In fact, if Microsoft would just be eliminated today, I think free as in speech software would fill in the gaps and satisfy computer users. I wish that Microsoft would just disappear.Hmm I think if microsoft was never started by Bill Gates then someone else would have created it. It would have taken longer though. We would be less technologly advanced then what we are. So yes microsoft being invented led to a lot of things. It led to the Mac and to Linux and different things like that. So if microsoft would have never been invented then we might not even have computers now a days.
There were other competitors like BBC and Acorn. Maybe even Sinclair would have stuck at it and we'd be using Spectrum '05 now instead? Who knows? I think that Apple would be a lot more dominant that's for sure.
I agree that someone else would do the similar thing but who knows how today’s operating systems would look like and how quickly they would be developing. There would probably be more competitors but would they be free? I like Windows. I tried to use several free operating systems and I liked them too, in some way, but the problem was that I never managed to configure all hardware I need to use; it was very difficult for me at the beginning to install drivers by changing source code. Windows is not free but I like the fact that I can easily find programs of any kind and configure them without too much trouble and asking someone else to do it for me.
In all seriousness, I really don't have much against Microsoft. I think I'd actually miss it a little if it were gone...
Even though I've always wanted to use a modern macbook. They look pretty sweet.
Sadly, this day will never come.. (Although i wish microsoft never came to be what it is, AT ALL ) i still believe there is something like Windows for pc even Bill Gates has never been existing..... Someone else must do it. It may be IBM or whatever company. But i don't think it will be Apple, because Apple is not "flexible" in their hardwares and it's expensive (till now....). Something easier and cheaper to use must appear instead of Microsoft.
I think if Bill Gates didn't creat Microsoft, well someone would cread Microsoft instead of Bill.
Well, sometimes needs creat new products. as technology developed, other related industries have developed as well.
OS/2 Warp might've been a strong contender if Macintosh didn't aggressively take root. All Apple needed was someone with an aggressive and smart sense for business. Apple could've really used a business platform division to get themselves in the market in a big way.
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Okay, imagine, Bill Gates never created Microsoft. He was never interested in computers whatsoever.
Where would we be today? Using another type of computer? Would IBM break through as standard PCs? And then there's poor old Apple.... would the Apple Mac be more popular?
Wouldn't it be weird?!
What are your opinions??? |
Gates did well more because of marketing and doing well at business, rather than the technology. So perhaps we could have been much further in development than now if someone more savvy had been around with less capitalist ambitions than Gates. I take my hat off for Gates, but perhaps lots of his progress has come to our general overall detriment as far as progress is concerned. High time for some rival to sort Microsoft out.ummm...okay...sorry...not followin ya | yagnyavalkya wrote: |
If Bill gates had not done what he had done
some else would have done it |
^Excellent summary
Instead of Windows XP, we would be on Doors GX.
Instead of Bill Gates, Robert Fence would be running a multibillion dollar corporation, entitled nanofluffy.
