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Old 01-21-08, 09:33 PM   #1
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Urban legend; Microsoft chairman Bill Gates neither wrote the words nor delivered them in a speech to high school students or anyone else.

http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_bill_gates_speech.htm
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Old 01-21-08, 11:02 PM   #2
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You should have relised this Kiwi when you first saw it. It made too much sense for Bill Gates to ever have said anything like this in public. Just look at all his "Predictions" on where microsolft would be in 5 years:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:!
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You should have relised this Kiwi when you first saw it. It made too much sense for Bill Gates to ever have said anything like this in public. Just look at all his "Predictions" on where microsolft would be in 5 years:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:!
'Going turncoat' is my second name.

What BG really said:

"640K ought to be enough for anybody"
"People everywhere love Windows"
"Spam will be a thing of the past in two years' time" (2004)
"Does the e-mail say it's about 'enlargement' (that might be spam)

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Old 01-22-08, 07:21 AM   #4
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No matter who authored that list, it holds some valid truths.
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