Bill Gates, who created a software monopoly Microsoft, is regarded as one of the greatest and most powerful men in the world. His talent and successes are admired by a lot of people and provide strong motivation for the young to follow. However, whether the superman has perfectly finished his role as the captain of the multinational computer technology corporation?
Like other human being in our society, Gates has also made big mistakes. On May 18, 1998, a set of consolidated civil actions against his company were performed by the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) and 20 U.S. states because it was sued for illegally thwarting competition in order to protect and extend its software monopoly.
However, it is not the first time the tech titan had to face with serious trouble. Here are ten big mistakes he made through the time.
Bill Gates didn’t appreciate the opensource, so his business strategies were always opposed to opensource principles and paradigm
Gates earned much profit from the Windows OS but its latest iteration is bombarded with lots of negative criticisms
It is said that if Gates had paid more attention to Windows Mobile, the market would have had brighter future
Gates let DOS die, but it is actually promising and stable
Gates allowed Windows Millennium edition to be released in 2000 but it definitely failed the expectation of the people and was a reflection of the lack of talents from Microsoft
In 2006, Gates continued to make mistake with Windows Vista, a major update to the Windows family of operating systems after a long gap of around five years. However, it wasn't used widespread because its installation requires superb computers and its price was too high
Bill Gates ignored search while Google actually becomes one of the leading titans thanks to this field. Microsoft then developed its own search tool Bing but this action seemed to be too late
The Microsoft Zune is also a mistake he made because this music device didn’t yield enough profit though a lot of money poured into its development
Though the Xbox received less criticism than the Microsoft Zune, it is too expensive for a gaming console to afford. As a result, gamers go for other brands with cheaper ones. Microsoft had to set its price in war with Sony’s PS3 and Nintendo’s top-selling Wii
One of the biggest mistakes he made is not to probably think of cloud computing due to his proprietary Windows OS
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