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Bill, the friend that you have not chosen

My thoughts on Bill latest visions.

Once in a while, Bill exposes his visions about all that is related to the IT. In his last interview, he speaks about all and nothing. Since it has already been commented on the famous news sites, I am rather going to focus on the points that strike me the most.

1. Bill wants Windows everywhere. Nothing new, but he now wants it in your TV as well. MediaCenter is the new trojan horse, like Internet Explorere was for the web. Fortunately, a good browser saved the world from an evil monopoly that has locked innovation on the web. The XBox is also part of this world domination project effort.
2. MSN is concentrating toward the messenger-like tools that manage your community-related stuff (instant messaging, photos sharing, ...). Big Brother is watching you even more.
3. Outlook will get support for the blog phenomena. Expect an amazing support for RSS which is described as a fabulous invention. One day Bill will say that Microsoft invented it. Should we remind that it's just a about RDF and a little bit of minimalistic description logics ? Maybe they should first fix the numerous holes that are part of Outlook. Is that logical to see worms gaining access to your address book then spread spams and viruses ?
4. He is strangely very pleasant toward Apple. Or maybe he just wants to keep selling Office for OS X...
5. He puts down the FireFox rise and the Internet Exploder Explorer fall. Daniel Glazman is better at speaking about that than I.

The best for the end:

In recent years, there's been a lot of people clamoring to reform and restrict intellectual-property rights. It started out with just a few people, but now there are a bunch of advocates saying, "We've got to look at patents, we've got to look at copyrights." What's driving this, and do you think intellectual-property laws need to be reformed? No, I'd say that of the world's economies, there's more that believe in intellectual property today than ever. There are fewer communists in the world today than there were. There are some new modern-day sort of communists who want to get rid of the incentive for musicians and moviemakers and software makers under various guises. They don't think that those incentives should exist.

And this debate will always be there. I'd be the first to say that the patent system can always be tuned -including the U.S. patent system. There are some goals to cap some reform elements. But the idea that the United States has led in creating companies, creating jobs, because we've had the best intellectual-property system -there's no doubt about that in my mind, and when people say they want to be the most competitive economy, they've got to have the incentive system. Intellectual property is the incentive system for the products of the future.

I'd rather say that the Microsoft way is leading to some kind of new-communism. Once againg there is nothing new, FUD on the so-called intellectual property is one of Bill's favorite hobby. Meanwhile, I prefer to keep working with Linux-based systems and BSD variants. And I'll buy my next machine to Apple since they have superb hardware and a great operating system with a Unix foundation. But no way to go back to Windows any day...

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