That being said, Bill Gates' reaction to Google's motto seems tone-deaf even by his near-autistic standards of interpersonal communication.
Q:So that would be the philosophical difference between Microsoft and what Google is up to at this point?
Gates: Well, we don't know everything they are up to, but we do know their slogan and we disagree with that.
Wait, what? You disagree with the idea of not being evil? Somebody get this guy a speaking coach!
]]>I don't think Bill was referring to "Don't Be Evil".
]]>"So Google is not offering development capabilities yet. Of course, I expect they will. But they're not in that game at all today. In fact, they have this slogan that they are going to organize the world's information. Our slogan is that we are going to give people tools to let them organize the world's information. It's a slightly different approach, based on the platformization of all of our capabilities and not thinking of ourselves as the organizer."
So I guess he's referring to the "other" Google motto!
]]>"Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm but the harm does not interest them."
Avoiding evil is harder than you think, and Google's motto seems like a useful reminder to me.
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Still made me do a double-take today..... ;-)
As I typed that, I thought of George W., who has probably been media-trained a million times and still...well, you've heard him speak...hmm.
]]>Here's some less-carrot-more-stick marketing from Microsoft on MSN.com trying to sell some security solutions ...
First there is this really sinister message that goes:
"Will 'dot-cons' doom the Net?
What can be done to prevent the vulnerable, new Web users from being hoodwinked? The Net is becoming a lawless environment where criminals are getting the upper hand."
This is followed, rather lamely, by:
"Microsoft to offer new security service"
LOL :)
I think this would be too obvious even to the pissing-in-his-pants newbie.
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