Frankly, I feel like the media hasn’t really engaged him in tech for the last couple of decades since he stepped back. So he hasn’t been pushed for takes on tech.
There is zero reason to expect Gates to have particular credibility on this front, he hasn’t been part of “the game” in a long time. Even then his perspective was a bit indirect.
If back in his hayday you had asked Gates about the core technologies of the Web infrastructure, he would have confidently assumed Windows NT, IIS, MSSQL, and . net would be the foundation of everything. Not because of deep technical understanding and vision, but because his guys were doing it and surely his guys were the best guys.
All good points. I gave him a little rope as he has been speaking about these things lately, including in his annual …report? But yeah these comments do seem a little self serving.
Maybe he’s just got a big tailwind and I am overestimating him
This is uncommonly off the mark for Gates. There’s a sort of lack of nuance in these remarks. Too much confidence.
Frankly, I feel like the media hasn’t really engaged him in tech for the last couple of decades since he stepped back. So he hasn’t been pushed for takes on tech.
There is zero reason to expect Gates to have particular credibility on this front, he hasn’t been part of “the game” in a long time. Even then his perspective was a bit indirect.
If back in his hayday you had asked Gates about the core technologies of the Web infrastructure, he would have confidently assumed Windows NT, IIS, MSSQL, and . net would be the foundation of everything. Not because of deep technical understanding and vision, but because his guys were doing it and surely his guys were the best guys.
All good points. I gave him a little rope as he has been speaking about these things lately, including in his annual …report? But yeah these comments do seem a little self serving.
Maybe he’s just got a big tailwind and I am overestimating him