Here is a fact...If not for Gates and Microsoft most of you would not be on a computer, with Windows any idiot can run a computer today. Before Windows was DOS, I used it for years, it's a command line OS
that means you must learn lots of keyboard command like DIR, MKD, FORMAT, COPY, CD, and hundreds more. if you want to give this a try go download Linux, its free and it's the same thing as DOS all command line inputs.
https://www.kali.org/downloads/ like I said it's free and it's very powerful. But it's not easy like Windows.
Try it and post back.

Here is a fact...If not for Gates and Microsoft most of you would not be on a computer, with Windows any idiot can run a computer today. Before Windows was DOS, I used it for years, it's a command line OS
that means you must learn lots of keyboard command like DIR, MKD, FORMAT, COPY, CD, and hundreds more. if you want to give this a try go download Linux, its free and it's the same thing as DOS all command line inputs.
https://www.kali.org/downloads/ like I said it's free and it's very powerful. But it's not easy like Windows.
Try it and post back.

I retired.

I'm sorry you misread what I wrote as reflecting a whining, jealous person with failures in his background.

Guys like Mr. Gates, are often given credit for things they did not do or say, and that is the case for this particular string where he's given credit for an 11 point comment that he never made.

Anyone who has followed his career knows that he not only did not follow those 11 points, but on a more important level would never agree with them. And I don't like to see people fooled by the advertising/public relations people that people like Bill have working for them.

Here is a fact...If not for Gates and Microsoft most of you would not be on a computer, with Windows any idiot can run a computer today. Before Windows was DOS, I used it for years, it's a command line OS
that means you must learn lots of keyboard command like DIR, MKD, FORMAT, COPY, CD, and hundreds more. if you want to give this a try go download Linux, its free and it's the same thing as DOS all command line inputs.
https://www.kali.org/downloads/ like I said it's free and it's very powerful. But it's not easy like Windows.
Try it and post back.

Bill Gates recently gave a speech at a High School about eleven (11) things they did not and will not ever learn in school.

He talks about how the feel-good, unionized, politically correct teachings created 2 generations of kids with no concept of reality and how this concept sets them up to be failures in the real world.

This should be posted in every schoolroom and in your kid's bedroom.

Rule 1 : Life is not fair - get used to it!

Rule 2 : The world doesn't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.

Rule 3 : You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You won't be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both.

Rule 4 : If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.

Rule 5 : Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping: They called it opportunity.

Rule 6 : If you mess up, it's not your parents' fault, so don't whine about your mistakes, learn from them.

Rule 7 : Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you think you are: So before you save the rain forest from parasites of your parent's generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.

Rule 8 : Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life HAS NOT. In some schools, they have abolished failing grades and they'll give you as MANY TIMES as you want to get the right answer. *This doesn't bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life.

Rule 9 : Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you FIND YOURSELF. *Do that on your own time.

Rule 10 : Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually have to leave their i-phones and go to jobs.

Rule 11 : Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.

If you can read this... Thank a Teacher
If you can read this in English... Thank a Soldier!
And for life and everything else you have... Thank God!!

Do you really think that someone else wouldn't have popularized something similar to windows?

Whenever somthing is needed, someone will find a way to supply it. That is a rule of human nature, and I'll bet if you had thought a little more before writing the above you wouldn't have bothered writing it. I"ll bet that right now there are people working on the next breakthrough in computing which will make Windows obsolete. In fact I wouldn't be surprised if it wasn't already developed a number of times and bought up to keep it off the market. What do you think?

Do you really think that someone else wouldn't have popularized something similar to windows?

Whenever somthing is needed, someone will find a way to supply it. That is a rule of human nature, and I'll bet if you had thought a little more before writing the above you wouldn't have bothered writing it. I"ll bet that right now there are people working on the next breakthrough in computing which will make Windows obsolete. In fact I wouldn't be surprised if it wasn't already developed a number of times and bought up to keep it off the market. What do you think?

Actually, making a better thermostat or doorknob is not only a breakthrough, but a good example of mankind advancing by developing needed things.

It is interesting that the inventors who invented, in most cases didn’t popularize (in many cases because of insufficient finances) and therefore benefit much financially from their invention. Someone else either stole or “bought”, advertised, sold and made money from that invention and, eventually was thought by the Hoy Poloi to have been the inventor. Which our children, to their detriment, were taught to revere and emulate.

Undeserved and unearned credit creating another clay footed hero. We have all too many of them in our history books.

This whole string started by giving unearned credit to an ordinary fellow who just happened to be born to the rightly connected wealthy family, and and thusly is able to sail through life with little effort. He got that credit because Clayy footed hero worshiping fools gave him credit for speaking some important truths that teenagers need to hear.

But he never said them. And doesn’t deserve being held up to the American Public as some kind of hero our kids should emulate. He isn’t a hero, or an inventor, he is just a person connected by the accident of birth with people who helped him become a successful entrepreneur.

I pointed that out. And that is all. Nothing more.