How does Bill Gates shape up as a seer?

[snopes]

Bill Gates has recently been prognosticating all over the place, offering his thoughts on the future of newspapers, television, advertising, communications, telephones and many other areas of business and technology.

But how good are his predictions, really?

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/busine...oftware21.html

I personally think Bill Gates has a gift for reading the mob and putting himself in front of it. Every idea, trend and technology he supported or acclaimed was already in existance or known, and his claims quoted in that article are all steeped in popular thought os the times. The article is simply picking his quotes and showing how they panned out years after the fact without any tie to what other people were saying at the time. My opinion, of course.

[remarkgullabull]

There's one prediction he surely didn't make....

A windows operating system that doesn't need to be patched and is free from security flaws!

[Not_Done_Living]

contrary to popular belief.. EVERY OS has security flaws.
Just MS flaws are more publicized due to the fact that 75% or more consumers are using a MS OS.

Working in a Mixed mode IT environment, this week i have received HPUX, Linux, Solaris and MS security patches.

[remarkgullabull]

Originally Posted by Not_Done_Living

contrary to popular belief.. EVERY OS has security flaws.
Just MS flaws are more publicized due to the fact that 75% or more consumers are using a MS OS.

Working in a Mixed mode IT environment, this week i have received HPUX, Linux, Solaris and MS security patches.

Apparently there wasn't enough sarcasm in my post.