Bill Gates

  • I believe OS/2 is destined to be the most important operating system, and possibly program, of all time. (1987)
  • We will never make a 32-bit operating system. (1989)
  • Within five years, I predict it (Windows Tablet PC) will be the most popular form of PC sold in America. (2002)
  • Spam will be a thing of the past in two years’ time. (2004)

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  1. shinichi Post author

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    I believe OS/2 is destined to be the most important operating system, and possibly program, of all time.

    – Bill Gates, 1987

    This quote originated from a foreword written by Bill Gates for the OS/2 Programmer’s Guide. OS/2 is an operating system created by IBM and Microsoft. It was later developed by IBM alone and supported until 2006.
    Although it allegedly ran Windows programs better than Windows itself, calling OS/2 the most important program of all time certainly was a gross exaggeration.

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    We will never make a 32-bit operating system.

    – Bill Gates, 1989

    No one knows why Bill Gates felt compelled to make such a statement, given the fact that an advance from 8-bit to 16-bit had just been made, and subsequent developments were only logical. Subsequently, ‘never’ must have come and gone as the 32-bit Windows NT 3.1 was launched only four years later, in 1993.

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    Within five years, I predict it will be the most popular form of PC sold in America.

    – Bill Gates, 2002

    “It,” in this case, was the Windows Tablet PC, where you write with a stylus on the screen. Oh well.
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    Spam will be a thing of the past in two years’ time.

    – Bill Gates, 2004

    Bill Gates made this statement at the World Economic Forum in Davos. The technology he suggested was the electronic equivalent of a stamp, payable only when an email is rejected. At the same event he also announced that Microsoft’s search technology would soon outpace Google. Soonish 7 years later and we’re still waiting for any of that to happen.

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