Before the storm; Gates' smartest move
Windows is a disaster waiting to happen.
With each iteration it bloats and bloats and comes closer to forcing MS to admit they really don't know how it works - witness the corrections to corrections that come out almost daily or their inability to hit any target date for SPs (SP3 for XP and SP1 for Vista are each years late).
But the more ominous problem is this: some huge portion of America's businesses, utilities, gov't agencies and other organizations that affect the public health, safety and welfare are dependent on Windows.
One good uber-virus and there goes our civilization: businesses can't schedule trucking (no more food), utilities lose much control over aspects of water and power distribution (no heat, no lights ... no computers to fix each other ...), investors can't talk to the stock market; industry crashes.
When you consider all that is riding on Windows - it's a lot more than your email files - MS should be held to a higher level of accountability than a game producer.
Unlike game software, Windows really could bring down the country.
If I were Gates, I sure as hell would take the money and run - as far as I could legally distance myself from the greatest time-waster known to mankind: MS Windoze.
