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Microsoft Lacks Goals: Bill Gates Waffles When Tim O’Reilly Asks Probing Question

June 4, 2008
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“It was left to a member of the audience, technology publisher Tim O’Reilly, to ask a searching question. Did Microsoft ‘have any really big, hairy, audacious goal’ any more? Watching Gates waffle said everything one needed to know about how incoherent and middle-aged his company has become. He didn’t have an answer because there isn’t one.” Read Bill Gates doesn’t play monopoly? Laugh? I nearly died (The Guardian)

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