Bill Gates no longer world's richest man
 

HAHAHAHAHAHA....who the heck is Carlos Slim?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080306/...lionaires_dc_7

Here's the list:
http://www.forbes.com/lists/2008/10/...ires_Rank.html

inb4 people hatin' just cuz they're rich.

Man, <3 Bill Gates. Especially his Microsoft retirement video. Pure Lulz.

Carlos Slim. Sounds like a bad guy from a 1950's Cowboy TV show, or some sort of Mexican cigarette spokesman.

I thought this happend already like a few years ago.

I'm pretty sure it did.

I'm not going to player-hate on Gates. I will, however, hate on that 23-year old billionaire. You are a disgrace to your slacker brothers everywhere!

Jesus, that Facebook thing is so ****** :/

And Bill Gates lost half of his fortune a few years ago, but still remained in the first place as the richest guy on Earth.

Awe............A single tear rolls down my cheek.

Yeah right! I'm surprised the oil tycoons aren't the richest in the world, though the company Exxon/Mobil I believe is the wealthiest company in the world, with the biggest profits garnered every quarter. And they say they have no choice but to raise the price of crude oil. BS! Exxon's not doing too bad for a company that almost went bankrupt from that horrible ALaskan oil spill back in the late 80's/early 90's. I'd sure like to know how they came from almost bankrupt to number 1.

Well, Bill Gates downhill slide from number 1 probably stems from the Vista Program not doing so well, Gateway having very stiff competition from Dell and the PC having competition from Mac.

Off topic, but reread your post. You answered your own question...

I... don't think it is Exxon/Mobil responsible in particular for raising the prices of crude oil.

He wouldn't remain the richest anyway. Over the last few years he's given away something like $2 billion, and used another $1 billion to establish his scholarship program. For a long time, he's been saying he plans to be like Carnegie and give away most of his fortune before he dies.

That's pretty cool.

(Don't worry, I still think Microsoft sucks.)

I like how you say that as if no one would like you if you DID like Microsoft.

Man, I hate Microsoft, too! Microsoft and their...successful business! Always have to make user-friendly and overall great software!

Gateway technically only exists in name only as it was baught out by Acer last year (October to be exact) for $710 million USD.

Ah, snark, how I love thee.

There are a few things I like about MS stuff, but those don't make up for the overall slapped-together, buggy feel of their products. I routinely use non-MS products, and by contrast MS products are intensely frustrating. IMO, most people use MS products more because of Bill Gates' marketing savvy than because Microsoft product quality warrants a large share of the market. Microsoft is the McDonald's of software companies... not that good, but convenient, cheap, and good enough that most people are willing to compromise.

As a marketer, I have nothing but admiration for Mr. Gates. He's a marketing genius. But as a tech consumer, I tend to shy away from anything he endorses.

Bill Gates may be filthy rich, but he's a Harvard dropout that started a company from the ground up, and grew to a multi billion corporation. All the stories about Gates asking for money to support his project, with his fellow workers that stood by him, and they looked like bums, but bums that made the world how we see it now, we send email, view the internet, and type everything we do. And like others have said, it's user friendly, right out of the box you can use it and learn pretty easy, while other operating systems and software might be a bit more tricky to learn, and require a more tech savvy person. But the point of Microsoft products being cheap? I highly disagree with that. Microsoft XP Home is still going to run you around 200 bucks, and Vista at around 300-400 depending on the version you get. And microsoft office going for 120-170 depending on where you get it. Where personally OpenOffice.org's products are incredible, they save in an obscene ammount of file types, and the beautiful part of it, it's free. And of course you can go with Linux, which can be customized to look like Windows, but of course, not as user friendly for the newbies of technology. While I still use Windows at home (XP and Vista) and I am loving it, but I am also opening my mind to the open source world, which is a great experience, that most people won't even think about.

I never f*cking get this. Am I the only one who's smart enough to not break Windows or something? Vista or otherwise. The only times I ever have any kind of problems is when I'm dealing with shady sh*t on my PC. Other than that, I never have a hook with Microsoft products.

Alot of people love to blame their operating system on their problems. The operating system ain't going to function as it should if you happen to download and end up getting a trojan or a virus, it will obvious fail, yet they believe that it's the operating system. Only thing I have had wrong with Vista was that the installation cd I got from Dell, is not including a crucial update, so when I reformated, I could not install 95% of the software I needed due to the permissions problem, but a windows update fixed that and my vista experience has been smooth. Another great example is people trying to run Vista on a pentium 3 processor with 256MB ram. Time to upgrade people, computers are dirt cheap these days!

Nothing's broken. There are just things that are very easy to do in other non-MS programs that turn into complicated messes in MS programs.

One example: In order to get 'Data Analysis' to show up on the Tools menu in Excel 2003, you have to take your cursor and highlight the data you want to analyze. Why? Just... because. If you don't magically know this fact, you're going to waste a lot of time looking for the feature. You may even think the feature hasn't been installed, in which case you're going to waste a lot of time trying to install the a feature pack that's already installed.

Most everyone uses Excel because it's convenient and "good enough," even though it can be a pain and sometimes corrupts information through inexplicable "helpful" conversions. Excel's an OK general-use spreadsheet program with some pretty bells and whistles. But the Data Analysis quirk above is only too typical of the strange programming decisions that pop up throughout MS software.

When it comes down to it, I prefer reliability over glitz, and that's just not how Microsoft thinks. Instead, Microsoft writes programs that try to read the user's mind and make "helpful" decisions. The major flaw in this plan should be obvious-- computers can't read your mind. At least, they can't read MY mind. So what should be good programs turn into frustrating, time-sucking agents of the devil.

If this has not at all resembled your experience with MS software, that's great. Lucky you. But I still think Microsoft sucks.

Interesting, although spreadsheet software is hard to figure out from just picking it up anyways so you have to know it pretty good to achieve what you want, but interesting. Not attacking you but what do you use in replace of it? Because all the software I have used is almost the same setup as Excel.