Friday, November 24, 2006 - Posts

The Soul of Microsoft

The Soul Of A New Microsoft

Edgy thinkers like J Allard are looking far beyond Windows for the next big thing....

New soul.... LOL...the author of this Business week cover story never read the history of Word vs.WordPerfict.

Our American Football rah-rah mentality is an integral part of the soul of Microsoft. Bill Gates’s family were avid fans of Washington State football when he was growing up and Steve Ballmer was the equipment manger of Harvard’s Football team when he was an undergraduate there.

I played football in High School and Collage so I understand about motivation and teamwork.

Microsoft is about Partners, the Zune is made by Toshiba a Microsoft Partner and XBOX games are written by Partners. 

Partners have made Microsoft what it is today and Partners will continue to generate revenue for and thanks too Microsoft.

AI Riches

A Smarter Computer to Pick Stocks

Ray Kurzweil is now a hedge fund manager and thinks the future of stock-picking will be done by machines. 

Artificial intelligence is becoming so deeply integrated into our economic ecostructure that some day computers will exceed human intelligence

I met Ray back in October and recorded a video of his talk on the Acceleration of Technology

FatCat has Michael W. Brown as an invester, he used to work at Microsoft and is now Chairman of Nasdaq. Bill Gates say's he's the best person I know at predicting the future of artificial intelligence.

Has anyone had any luck with those lotto machines that generate numbers for you?

Whenever I read about historical patterns 1929 comes to mind.