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Bill Gates is better than Batman

One of the most common known facts about Bill Gates is that, he is, mostly, responsible for making personal computers accessible to millions around the world with the Windows operating system. It has had an affect on nearly every field, benefiting education, management, marketing, science, technology, and heck, even gaming.

Bill Gates is also known for his philanthropy, however very few people actually know, or care, that his work in the field has affected, and saved so many lives, that it is an achievement far and beyond everything he has ever done.

Lord_Sloth5241d ago (Edited 5241d ago )

This isn't really gaming news.

Legion5241d ago (Edited 5241d ago )

Well you are correct in the same way that an industry person doing something is not game news.

He is the founder of the Xbox 360 and so basically anything related to him will get some form of gaming news attached to it.

No different then Steve Jobs news being related to Apple even though it might have had little to do with the company.

Or even for that matter when we hear about certain game creators that get hit up with sexual assault charges, somehow it becomes gaming news.

Bill Gates is a part of Xbox 360... so his name gets breathed from the lips of babes and it becomes Xbox related.

We learn to deal with it...

As for the article... I was familiar with most of his endeavors but some of those were news to me. Batman is nothing compared to Bruce Wayne though... now that man has done a lot for Gotham.

kaveti66165241d ago

Bill Gates did not found the Xbox 360. Allard did it, I think.

Lord_Sloth5241d ago

No. His COMPANY founded the XBox 360, not Gates himself. That's like saying Masaru Ibuka and Akio Morita made the Playstation.

Legion5241d ago

I didn't say he made the Xbox 360... he was in charge of the company that founded the Xbox 360 (Microsoft), thus I gave him the moniker of founder.

As for Allard, I would have referenced Bach instead of Allard in that point as he is the one that eventually brought Allard onto the team. Allard "...wasn’t the first on the project; and Xbox itself had many different fathers who made critical contributions." Though many have been monikered with founder none can dispute the owner of Microsoft as the one that gave the go ahead for the Xbox to be able to make it to market.

But again even the creators of the Xbox were all brought in by Microsoft on the project to create a console to compete with the PS2. Microsoft is the founder of Xbox and Bill Gates IS (was?) Microsoft.

tacomonster5241d ago

Bill gates saved people with drugs and medicine. Batman saves people from being killed in a violent way. Being murdered in an alley seems pretty bad.

Legion5241d ago

Being murdered by neglect with a slow torturous diseased life seems pretty bad to me also.

360ICE5241d ago (Edited 5241d ago )

All rich people in the US do charity... Just saying. If not the far-liberals and hippies label you as an evil corperation. Hippies are of course not actually consumers anyway, so companies like WalMart take little effect from this.

Anyway, Bill is probably a god guy.

kaveti66165241d ago

Some rich people do the bare minimum of charity work just to avoid paying taxes. Some establish foundations so they can launder their money to avoid paying taxes. All corporations give a bit to charity to maintain a good public image and they make damn sure that everyone knows about it.

Bill Gates is going to donate more than 50 percent of his net worth to help people in countries throughout the world and has encouraged many other very wealthy people to do the same. He's not doing the bare minimum, he's not trying to avoid taxes.

There's a very big difference between people who donate some dough to avoid taxes and people who donate a ton of dough to help people.

Intentions do matter.

360ICE5240d ago

I'm not arguing with you :)

urwifeminder5241d ago

He was just in australia asking millionares to put up cash for child immunisation in third world countries since he got married he has done some really good things with his cash.

kikizoo5241d ago

Not so much http://www.guardian.co.uk/g...

and it's just a part of the dark side of the foundation.

Legion5241d ago

Dark side? Just another article that hates on anything that is associated with big business. Gates foundation obviously knows they need the current capabilities to do the best they can for the people of the world. It is very little difference to how Gates is demonized for his affiliation with Microsoft. Some people just find the worst in every thing people do.

Venjense5241d ago (Edited 5241d ago )

He has probably still helped more people that the entire N4G user base every will, and more importantly, ever even try/care to help.

He tries to make the world a better place, most of us just play games and troll/insult strangers behind the safety of the internet..

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Microsoft Gaming Revenue Drops 7% Year-on-Year, Content and Services Down 5%, Xbox Hardware Down 33%

Microsoft announced its financial results for Q3 of fiscal year 2026, including an update on its gaming Xbox business and more.

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Jin_Sakai23d ago (Edited 23d ago )

Not looking good. Hopefully Asha Sharma is able to turn Phil’s disaster around.

dveio22d ago

To me it's still quite remarkable how they can cash-in 5.3bn in revenue in a single quarter, since their hardware is basically dead.

Jingsing22d ago

The stock mark is what makes Microsoft remarkable, They have convinced every institutional and retail investor to just keep piling money into them. Like many big tech giants they are just a big growing pyramid scheme. As long as people keep dropping money into ETF's that cover the market Microsoft will always be liquid. At the same time it is completely stifling innovation and competition. People need to start being more discreet in how they invest their money as it's killing the system.

Tanktopmaster9222d ago

Once they re-evaluate exclusive all will be fine….

S2Killinit22d ago

Riiiiight because people will just flock back to them for one or two games per year.

Jingsing22d ago

15+ years of bad performance is what they call irreparable in business. It is time for them to sell off the assets and get out of entertainment.

Tanktopmaster9222d ago

These declines are on the back of extra revenue received from releasing games like Forza horizon 5 on PlayStation. So I’m being sarcastic here when I said they should go back to exclusives. Killing off a revenue stream from Ps5 sales will only make things worse

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