[Gllug] Bill Gates To Leave Microsoft

Alain Williams addw at phcomp.co.uk
Sat Jun 17 07:32:47 UTC 2006


On Sat, Jun 17, 2006 at 08:18:15AM +0100, Richard Jones wrote:

>   <quote>
>   Bill is the reason why the computing world is not dominated by fashing
>   cursors on an ominous black screen. He brought the PC to life, and
>   saved us from the "mainframe-mentality" of many computer hardware and
>   software manufacturers of his time. Sir, on behalf of the world; Thank
>   You.
>   </quote>
> 
> I for one am glad Gates invented the GUI!  Where would we
> be without him?

I assume that this is a wind up, unless you have forgotten the work at Xerox PARC - which
was first taken up by Apple.

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