[Am-info] Bill Gates show loses its lustre

[John J. Urbaniak]

Erick Andrews wrote:

> Microsoft is 'dogged' about innovation.  See:
>
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/news/0,12597,842558,00.html
>
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> The Microsoft boss usually puts on quite a performance when he
> opens the Comdex computer show. But this year's keynote,
> delivered last night, fell flat.
>
> Jack Schofield in Las Vegas
> Monday November 18, 2002
>
> For one day a year, the hottest ticket in Las Vegas is not for a pop star or sporting event
> but for a computer geek - when Microsoft's co-founder Bill Gates gives the opening
> keynote speech for Comdex, the giant computer trade show.
>
> Last night more than 10,000 people crammed into the MGM Garden Arena, many of them
> hoping for something that would revive the depressed IT industry. Instead, they got what
> was largely an extended Microsoft commercial.
>
> [...]

The IT industry will remain "depressed" as long as Microsoft retains its stranglehold.

And Linux is NOT the answer.  Replacing Windows with Linux would just transfer the stagnation
to a different platform.

Heterogeneity and diversity in Operating Systems and Applications are the answers.

John