Windows 10: I just wonder why Microsoft hates its customers. We've made Gates a multi-billionaire, why...

OC Brad · Jul 21, 2023

Onedrive steals my files and puts them on the internet. If I try to get them back, it threatens to delete them from all my devices. It's not optional, I've tried to get rid of it, but it always comes back. I have a 512Gb SSD. I don't need your crappy 5Gb, but you steal my files and fill up the 5Gb, then endlessly and annoyingly nag me to buy more.And when I try to select files in File Explorer, it acts like it's a graphics program and selects an area of the screen. What is that about? I've always used Windows. Why do you hate me so much? Every version you come out with is more hateful than the

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btarunr · Jul 21, 2023

Bill Gates Retires From Microsoft

The founder and head of Microsoft, the world's largest software company Bill Gates steps down on Friday. One of the richest men in the world, Gates will now work full time for his charitable organization The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

The 52-year-old will continue to be chairman though, but will only retain a nominal role in the software empire. He is still is the biggest shareholder of the company and his 8.7 per cent stake in Microsoft is worth about 23 billion dollars.

Gates authored the personal computer revolution three decades ago when he founded Microsoft along with his friend Paul Allen.

Microsoft released a commemorative video paying tribute to Bill's service to the company, titled "Bill Gates: Looking back, Moving Ahead". It can be watched on the company's website here.

WhiteLotus · Jul 21, 2023

Bill Gates to Make Important Announcement Regarding the Xbox 360 at CES 2008

and microsoft need good old gates to do this? being honest but it seems a bit of a small step for Gates to announce it if the rumors turn out to be correct.

fracking4oil · Jul 21, 2023

Wondering about Windows 10

FD611V;239070 said:

Bill Gates has nothing to do with Microsoft anymore. You should live in the present, not the past.

If you had bothered to look at the financials, you would see that as things stand today, the consumer OS sales do not really make that much money. The vast majority of MS's money comes from (and these licensing costs are not changing):

I see your elevator don't go above the first floor. Hey, I'm the present and one step ahead. Old Bill still calling the shots.
What Bill Gates' New Role Could Mean For Microsoft

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Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is stepping down as chairman of its board and into a new role, which the company is calling "technology adviser." The change comes as a new CEO — Satya Nadella — takes the helm. Gates says he will actually be spending a little more time at Microsoft. Microsoft watchers say if he manages his new role well, it will be good for the company.

Gates is certainly the visionary who turned Microsoft into a software juggernaut. Back in 1990, Gates told NPR that computers weren't quite ready for the home — at least not yet.
"A lot of people wouldn't have the time to learn how to use it," he said. But he also saw that in the near future computers would become easy to use and people would find them "as the medium they use to get information and to learn."
Gates was right on the money, and Microsoft's software navigated most of our PCs for over a decade. But Gates had a PC-centric vision of the future. He was slow to see the Internet coming. He couldn't imagine that people would bypass the computer for services that live online or in the cloud like Google Docs or Netflix. Microsoft's been playing catch-up.
Microsoft Finds Itself at a Crossroads

Gates missed that boat. But in stepping down as chairman, he announced that he would be spending more time at the company as its technical adviser at Nadella's request.
In , Gates said, "I'm thrilled that Satya has asked me to step up, substantially increasing the time that I spend at the company. I'll have over a third of my time available to meet with product groups and it'll be fun to define this next round of products."
It's not really clear just how involved Gates will be in shaping products. And given his track record of recent years it may not be the best role. Ted Schadler, an analyst with Forrester Research, thinks what Gates is really doing is helping to smooth the transition for the new CEO.
"So you start to think of Bill Gates as a coach, as a mentor, as somebody who is willing to step out of the limelight, but be present in helping the new CEO get his feet under him and get things done," Schadler says.
Schadler thinks the board picked Nadella to lead the company because he has been a leader at Microsoft in developing its cloud services, which is where the company needs to grow. Schadler says there is a risk in having Gates involved day to day: He could steal the limelight from Nadella.
"It would not create urgency around changing," Schadler says. "So if you're an employee of Microsoft, you need to change. And if Bill Gates was still seen as calling the shots then you might think, 'Well, I don't have to change really; we can just kind of keep going the way we're going.' "

* Enterprise OS licenses
* OEM Licenses
* Server and Application Licenses
* Services (Azure, etc..) fees
* Hardware (Keyboards, Mice, Xbox, etc..)
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The point you made was that Bill Gates was making billions on Win 10. As technical adviser, although I'm sure paid well, he's not making billions with Win 10.
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