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Hi everyone,

On Monday , Bill Gates will come to my country and I have an opportunity to ask him questions. For this reason I am thinking on questions which are affective , have capability to make him think about it deeply.

THe reason of this selectiveness is that, only there are a few people can ask him a question.
Briefly , I am searching for perfect questions .

If you know these kind of questions please inform me.

Thanks,

Mert
 
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Hey,
Where are you?
 
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What kind of event is that?

Tech questions probably are boring - both to him and the audience. So perhaps some questions about his life?

"What was your favorite movie 2005? Why?"

"If you could 'reboot' your life, what would you strive to do differently?"
 
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LOL

Another one: "Why is windows the only operating system that you have to push 'Start' in order to shut down???"
[ January 28, 2006: Message edited by: Roy Ben Ami ]
 
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What is Chthulu really like, as a person?
 
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I'd like to ask him about the development process and release speed vs marketing (after all Microsoft is not a software company it is a marketing company). Specifically why they release at such great time spans. And why they haven't adopted a more release early release quickly process. If you want to go from point A to point B and point B is moving it is best to do small adjustments in course. In this same way the market moves. And although they ARE the market in recent years threats have emerged to which Microsoft has been slow to respond. And they really can't argue they're tied up working on security because the security record hasn't improved too much since Trustworthy Initiative 4 years ago.

The question then. Is this a marketing strategy or is their build process so out of control and the internal "product requirements" so long and conflicting they just can't roll products out as fast as before? Are we at a stagnation point with Windows. A development dead end that we should fix the way Apple fixed it and should we expect a new from the ground up Windows?

Or maybe an even better question. Mr. Gates do you still keep Windows as a product because of some personal agenda or ego related issue? Because it is clear that Windows isn't getting anywere fast anytime soon. It is now taking 5 years for new releases when it took 2 or 3 before. Succesive Windows releases have broken quite a few apps. Why not just move to a new platform the way Apple did. It was viable for a company with Apple's resources it would be more so with one like yours. In about the same timespan (March 2001) to the present Apple has released 5 major releases (Cheetah, Puma, Jaguar, Panther and Tiger) and we still cant se the light of Windows Vista. Which at best has had 3 name changes in that time span.
 
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Originally posted by Ernest Friedman-Hill:
What is Chthulu really like, as a person?



LOL, truly!
 
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You should ask him: "Why have you not made Eric Pascarello an MVP yet?"

Then ask him if he ever goes comando.

Eric
 
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Just ask him "Will you hire me"
 
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ask him "How do you perceive life after Microsoft's take over by Google"
 
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What came first � a chicken or an egg or bird flue ?
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