Legendary Rivals Bill Gates and Steve Jobs... [Derived Headline]
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By ELLIOT SPAGAT | THE ASSOCIATED PRESS  By ELLIOT SPAGAT | The Associated Press  CARLSBAD, Calif. - Legendary rivals Bill Gates and Steve Jobs made a rare joint appearance Wednesday and wasted no time making nice.
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The corporate pair that launched the iPhone shares much in common. They also have plenty of conflicts as they push competing digital music businesses.
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By San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  May 30--A SHARED HISTORY   1975 -- Bill Gates and Paul Allen co-found Microsoft.   1976 -- Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak co-found Apple.   1981 -- Gates licenses DOS to IBM; Jobs visits Gates in August shortly after IBM PC is introduced.
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Jay Bazuzi: &quot;I work for Microsoft. I own plenty of Microsoft stock. I want Microsoft to succeed. But right now Google is kicking our butt.
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Will it be Google? Paul Allen? How about Qualcomm?
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I'm back, with a very interesting topic too!  Joel Spolsky, ex-Microsoft Manager and software engineering guru has a new essay, How Microsoft Lost the API War that is creating quite a big storm in the blogging communitiy.  Joel posits that the priests in the holy Temple of Microsoft have lost their way, because it has split into two factions, and the wrong faction is winning. One faction worships on the alter of backward compatibility, while the other is led by fervent priests who are proselytizing to raise up the new gods of .NET and Longhorn. Joel suggests that the new gods will cause the destruction of the holy Temple because Microsoft's great victories were built on the altar of keeping customers happy with backward compatibility. Furthermore the old gods of the Windows API continue to grow more grotesque and cruel with the passing of time, driving former worshipers into the arms of the friendlier gods of World Wide Web.  This story sounds extremely plausible. I must admit that i fit the profile of the developer who used to develop on the Window's API, is familiar with COM and Win32 who now develops mostly using PHP and Python. However I continue to develop and maintain Windows apps that keep our customers happy, and we still plan to develop new Windows apps. Some points:  Temple of the Blind? Firstly, Microsoft is still a compelling place to work for to people who feel that they can make a difference. The Temple continues to attract talented people with a Unix background. For example we have the recent hiring of Ward Cunningham, author of the Wiki.  Microsoft is still able to keep talented people like Raymond Chen, and others like him who continue to look after the Windows API, and Longhorn apparently will still give high priority to backward compatibility. Open sourcerers like Miguel Icaza are sufficiently attracted to the .NET vision to stake their careers on Mono. Longhorn and .NET are compelling technologies, so even if Win32 is not so cute anymore, M'soft is providing something that remains very attractive.  What i do see M'soft doing wrong is that they aren't disseminating the .NET runtime fast enough. It remains an optional install in XP Service Pack 2 for example. Also their IE dev team appears to be hog-tied due to political reasons; nevertheless IE remains good enough, particularly when I can embed IE as an activeX control, something I cannot do with Mozilla (AFAIK) - Update: I'm wrong.  Temple of the Spider?  Secondly, people don't merely use a web browser. They run the web browser in the OS.  So let me ask you, if you are using DreamWeaver or HomeSite or Photoshop or vi or emacs or Gimp, how many of you are willing to give it up for a java applet (or whatever your favorite technology is) running in your web-browser? Precisely.  Temple of the Abandoned?  Third, Joel makes the claim that developers are not developing to the Windows API. Well he could be right. But I bet a lot of them are still calling Win32.  If you are using a framework or IDE like Delphi or wxWindows (or .NET or VB) then you certainly are insulated from the Windows API, but that doesn't mean that you're not calling the Windows API all the time. I don't see Borland dropping their Windows version of Delphi at any point in time.   In fact, the fact that many developers are using some form of framework is a compelling argument for Microsoft to enhance the .NET framework to attract developers who are using other frameworks.  Today, not that many students learn x86 assembler, but that doesn't mean that Intel lost the CPU wars. Just because fewer people are learning Win32 doesn't mean Microsoft has lost the API wars, if the frameworks run predominantly on Win32.  Temple of the Lost  Joel even warns you in the beginning that "because I'm talking about big trends, I need to exaggerate and generalize". But you still get sucked in because Joel Spolsky is a first-class writer, in the same order as Philip Greenspun or Eric Raymond. That makes him so persuasive and plausible. But this is not Indiana Jones and doomed temples, but Steve Jobs and reality distortion fields.  Other opinions:  Harry Fuecks (PHP is ASP's upgrade path),  Dennis Hamilton (M'soft is just covering all bases), Robert McLaws (Joel is wrong in 7 points), Oliver Travers (the web is not good enough), One Run-time to Rule them all....
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Annual reports are usually deadly boring documents filled with legalese -- Google's 10-K makes for interesting reading. Plus: If Steve Jobs is a crook, he's not getting richer from it. In Epicenter.
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Apple fans have a little more fodder for the rumour mill after a new posting on ThinkSecret.com. The Apple rumour site claims that Steve Jobs &amp; Co.
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By ELLIOT SPAGAT  CARLSBAD, Calif. - Legendary technology rivals Bill Gates and Steve Jobs made a rare joint appearance Wednesday and wasted no time making nice. "Bill built the first software company in the industry," said Jobs, co-founder of Apple Inc.
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Steve Jobs and Bill Gates had a non-virtual date this week. What's behind the new romance?
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Vista tops list of tech disappointments... NYT and Henry Blodget weigh in on Google's threat to Microsoft... More people are 'Googling' themselves and more...
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While headlines of the Oracle (nasdaq: ORCL - news - people ) and PeopleSoft (nasdaq: PSFT - news - people ) merger have dominated the biz world, Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) founder and ambitious philanthropist Bill Gates announced news of a
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Bill Gates hints at possible partnership with giant electronics company.
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SEATTLE _ At a much-touted duel of tech-industry icons in Carlsbad, Calif., Wednesday night, Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs is expected to brandish the iPhone, but Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates will also have some new firepower at hand.
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In the right corner, weighing in with 100 million downloaded iTunes songs: heavyweight champion Steve Jobs. In the left corner, weighing in with billions and billions of dollars and near universal
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As the Microsoft and Apple execs get ready to share the stage at a conference next week, we look at other times the tech titans have done a joint bill.
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With Microsoft's entrance into the portable music business, Apple's Steve Jobs must do what he has failed to do in the past: prevail over his old nemesis, Bill Gates.