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How did Bill Gates get popular?

Everybody has an opinion about whether Gates is a good guy or a bad guy. But there is no doubting that his image is a lot different than in 2000, when Ken Auletta painted an unflattering portrait of Gates in his book, "World War 3.0," about the Microsoft antitrust trial.

With Xbox, Gates had a chance to play the white knight. When Sony started dropping hints about the PlayStation 2 in 1998, Microsoft went into a panic. Sony's executives were boastful. Soon, they were saying it was going to be the comet to wipe out the dinosaurs and was "more than a PC." Microsoft had to defend the living room, and Gates' attempts to partner with Sony fell flat.

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Published: 542 days 1 hour ago | Article | Xbox 360 | Xbox | Gaming

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Le-mo - 542 days 2 hours ago

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Bill Gates is a great guy. He donated millions of dollars for charity and even built schools for poor countries. It might be ok to hate on Microsoft, but not Bill Gates.

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Bazookajoe_83 - 542 days 1 hour ago

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2 - He´s got a better reputation since he made the huge donation

And he has said that he will donate 99% when he dies. So i guess we could say he´s a decent guy. But microsoft as a company is holding the software business with an iron grip and will do anything to keep it that way.

In my opinion..

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JokesOnYou - 542 days ago

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2.1 - giving is always good...

well Bazooka, thats called business....none of these company's give a sh!t about us, we are just potential $$$$.

As for how did old Bill get popular?...thats easy he paid off the popular people to say he's popular.

nah, all (bad) Jokes aside the man has really put alot of money into some great causes, for that he *should be commended.

JOY

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Bazookajoe_83 - 541 days 23 hours ago

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"none of these company's give a sh!t about us, we are just potential $$$$" So true...

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Sheddi - 542 days ago

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im wondering why hes donating so much money?
has he done something REAAAAAAAL bad or is he just a generous person?
and i agree with #1 and #2

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Shroomy - 542 days ago

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4.1 - Him and his Wife,

Are very generous people, I don't understand why so many people hate Bill Gates for being successful in Life and becoming Rich because of it.

Isn't that what everyone dreams for?

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SkyGamer - 541 days 23 hours ago

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Well being one of the richest person in the world certanly ads to that. There is so much money being flowed through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, it is just unreal. They could probably pay for a GOOD chunk of the US debt and still have change left over.
As for the comment on Microsoft holds the software realm, I do agree but with the boon of the NET, it is google that you should be FAR more worried as they make SO much money selling NONCONCRETE products and STORE everything you search on their databases. Not only them, spny wants to control the hd market and BOUGHT many of the studios so there really is no difference. Just think that if they worked with Microsoft with HDi, blu-ray might have been in the Xbox360 from the getgo and we could have held on to the DISC much longer.

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SkyGamer - 541 days 23 hours ago

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Kudos to Bill Gates.

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