Comments on: bill and steve

By: latinbombshell

latinbombshell — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 02:45:20 +0000

Ya know, at some point you just have to ask: how are the aliens from outerspace interpreting this so-called battle?

By: Osama A.

Osama A. — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 12:53:11 +0000

The Bill and Steve show truly was amazing — to me because they were look back in a simply and honest way that is often hard to find among successful execs.
Kudos to Microsoft for beating corporate politics and their “internal Blue Monsters that stop them from changing the world” to actually create a whole new commercial product category.
Thanks for the link Hugh.

By: Dennis Howlett

Dennis Howlett — Sun, 03 Jun 2007 08:44:37 +0000

I don’t know if I’m reading too much into this but I see the Bill and Steve show as mindbogglingly important in an incredibly positive way. Stopped me dead in my tracks with a WTF stupid look on my face. Truly jawdropping — which doesn’t happen often.

By: hugh macleod

hugh macleod — Sun, 03 Jun 2007 04:30:34 +0000

Surface Tech is not new [I remember seeing it in a Sci-Fi TV series 10 years ago].
Making it large-scale commercially viable in a real world marketplace is new.
Let me know when you’ve cracked it

By: Valeria Maltoni

Valeria Maltoni — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 23:21:27 +0000

Hugh:
Thank you for drawing attention to this event and implications. I think the future of work is more and more in the conversation — meeting of the minds, projects, interests, etc.
Diplomats in business anyone?

By: Mike Peter Reed

Mike Peter Reed — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 23:14:49 +0000

Microsoft Surface is certainly bigger than the iPhone (read that how you want).
The tech has been around since about 1980. What took these two laggards so long?
The Gates/Jobs interview, the best bit for me was when Steve admitted in jest that the Apple/Microsoft marriage had been kept secret for 10 years (remember 1997?).
Many a true word has been spoken in jest.

By: Peter Ralph

Peter Ralph — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 22:06:53 +0000

I agree completely about the significance of Bill’s understated image. It highlights the fact that Microsoft’s public persona reflects Steve Ballmer’s aggression rather than Bill’s gentleness.
Bill is leaving the Blue Monster and turning into the Big Blue Fairy. I don’t know if you can characterise that Bill’s leaving MS as “going home” but he is obviously setting out to change the world.

By: Maggie Leber

Maggie Leber — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 20:41:28 +0000

Nothing new about "Microsoft Surface". Google for "Jeff Han" and see the original work...and the *original* demo video from TED, over a year ago. It's funny; this year's big "innovations" are Apple with the multi-touch iPhone and MSFT has the multi-touch Surface. It's "deja vu all over again"; instead of Apple and MSFT rolling out clones of Xerox PARC's Star (and duking it out in court), now the Apple fanbois are fighting with the MSFT fanbois over whether Surface is an iPhone ripoff...when once again the actual invention was done elsewhere.