Top 10 mistakes of Bill Gates
Bill Gates is considered as a great man. Many people look up to him. And a lot of people are inspired
by his life. But then again like any other human being he also has his own mistakes.
Here are the top 10 mistakes of Bill Gates.
1. The man created a software monopoly and in return he got so many lawsuits for it.Bill
Gates is still fighting with lawsuits.The source on wikipediaclearly stated that
United States v. Microsoft was a set of consolidated civil actions filed against Microsoft
Corporation on May 18, 1998 by the United States Department of Justice(DOJ) and 20 U.S.
states. Joel I. Klein was the lead prosecutor.The trial started on May 18, 1998 with the U.S.
JusticeDepartment and the Attorneys General of twenty U.S. states suing Microsoft for
illegally thwarting competition in order to protect and extend its software monopoly.
2. Bill Gates did not consider opensource. His business strategies always counter
opensource principles andparadigm.You may be interested in his open-source debate In
a Fortune magazine he clearly says that
It’s easier for our software to compete with Linux when there’s piracy than when there’s not.
3. The Windows OS made Mr. Gates the richest man in the world. But its latest iteration
is bombarded with lots of negative criticisms.
4. He allowed Windows Mobile to happen. Did he run out of innovative ideas so he settled
for a miniature Windows OS for mobile phone. He could have put up a team to design the OS from
ground up.
5. He let DOS die. It was a promising OS and a very stable one.
6. Bill Gates did not think of cloud computing probably because of his proprietary
Windows OS. But this is definitely one of his biggest mistakes.
7. He allowed Windows Millennium edition to be released. The OS was definitely a
reflection of the lack of talents from Microsoft. It failed the expectation of the people. It
was premature.
8. He ignored search. Look what happened to Google now.Bill Gates already made some
moves about search in the end of the 90s and it was definitely a mistake to trash
it.Scobleizer once revealed in his post that Look at my last post. Now read this one over on
LiveSide. It’s a short report that Microsoft executives are bragging to MVPs that “we’re in it
to win.”
I don’t think Microsoft is. The words are empty. Microsoft’s Internet execution sucks (on
whole). Its search sucks. Itsadvertising sucks (look at that last post again). If that’s “in
it to win” then I don’t get it. I saw a bunch of posts similar to the one on LiveSide coming
out of the MVP Summit. I didn’t post any of them to my link blog for a reason: All were air,
no real demonstrations of how Microsoft is going to lead.
9. The Microsoft Zune is a mistake. A lot of money poured into its development but yet
it did not yield enough profit.John Biggs from Crunchgear had a poetic post on “Who killed
Microsoft?”.Some of the extractare as follows:
Who killed Microsoft? Why did all thosejobs get lost?
“Not I,” said the Zune fanboy, “I got Zune, I’m no iToy Sure it didn’t do too much and too bad
my girlfriend bought a Touch now we’re iTunes all the way what else do I have to say?”
10. The Xbox on the other hand is too pricey for a gaming console and because of this;
people go for other brands- the cheaper ones.This is only reason why Xbox price set to drop in
war with Sony’s PS3 and Nintendo’s top-selling Wii. Those are the top 10 mistakes of Bill
Gates. These might be some of the negative side of the guy but these will never take away his
greatness.