Bill Gates: Prognosticator

Bill Gates recently laid a shot across the bow of Apple by saying, "I don't think the success of the iPod can continue in the long term, however good Apple may be." Ah yes, this from the man who said, "We will never make a 32-bit operating system, but I'll always love IBM" and "Microsoft has not changed any of its plans for Windows. It is obvious that we will not include things like threads and preemptive multitasking in Windows. By the time we added that, you would have OS/2." Go here to read about the 64-bit version of Windows XP and, if you use Windows NT, 2000, or XP, go to the Performance tab in Task Manager. There you can see the number of threads your CPU is putzing with currently. Come on! The guy can't even make credible predictions about his own products. If Apple doesn't fuck up, I think the iPod will continue to do well.