Bullshit – Bullshit – Bullshit
I hate the way people change their opinions about someone after they either become ill, die or (as in Bill’s case) retire.  The truth is that Bill Gates is still whatever he was 6 months ago; when these same idiots were sniping at his every move.

Hypocritical?
Even respected people got in on the act!  I love Leo Laporte – he’s my favourite Tech show producer for heavens sake – BUT Leo is also a well-known Mac fanboy.  I love the way Leo pokes fun at Microsoft.  However, listening to Leo Laporte gushing with praise for Bill Gates and Microsoft on last weeks ‘Windows Weekly’ show was nausiating! Why the change Leo?

In fairness to Leo Laporte, he was one of a massive number of highly respected ‘tech Journalists to change their opinions just because the guy’s left his job.  The BBC, who were recently challenged for their over-the-top Apple coverage – were just as hypocritical in their praise for Gates and Microsoft.

Guys – Come on!
Either retract the past 20 years worth stuff you wrote about Gates; telling us what a bastard he is, or stop with the ‘we love Bill’ bullshit!

For me, the most interesting thing about the evening, was a comment Bill Gates made to reporters at an earlier reception. After explaining that he will still have an office at Redmond, he went on to say that he would continue working on a number of pet projects.

Then he said something, which I think is really interesting;
“I’m very involved in search, the internal development,” he said. “We will build the world’s best search.”

Like many people, I was disappointed when Microsoft recently announced that it was going to use what it refers to as a ‘cash back‘ model, to try to gain some marketshare from Google; rather than innovate and make something better.

As Om Malik told the BBC this week; “Microsoft is like a bad restaurant – no matter what the incentive, you don’t want to eat there.

I hope that Bill Gates‘ comments yesterday are a sign that he IS serious about competing with Google, by making a better search product. I certainly hope! As I have already blogged, Google’s near monopoly in the search marketplace is good for no one other than Google.