Bill Gates confesses the two things he did wrong when he ran Microsoft | technophile

In a recent “Ask Me Anything” session at Redditthe co-founder of Microsoft has answered questions from users on various topics.

It is not the first time that Bill Gates lends himself to a session of this type. The former Microsoft manager has already done it ten times before this one.

One of the questions he received was about what is the most important thing you wish you had done differently when you were at Microsoft.

In his response, Bill Gates acknowledges that he knows a lot more now than he did when he was CEO until the year 2000. The two areas he would change are the work they did with mobile operating systems and the time it took for the antitrust case.

I was General Manager until the year 2000. Now I know many things that I didn’t know then. Two areas I would change would be our work on phone operating systems (Android won) and trying to settle the antitrust lawsuit sooner.

Regarding the first, the development of windows phone It consumed a lot of Microsoft’s resources, but neither this operating system nor its successor, Windows 10 Mobile, became as popular as Android or iOS.

For a long time, the company headed by Bill Gates and, later, by Steve Ballmer, insisted on making their operating system the favorite for consumers and companies. It wasn’t until the arrival of the new CEO, Satya Nadella, that Microsoft changed course and decided to abandon the fight for the mobile operating system.

As for the antitrust caseMicrosoft was accused of abusing its dominance in the personal computer operating system to stamp out competing web browsers by integrating Internet Explorer directly into the Windows operating system.

It was argued that this restricted the market from competing web browsers such as Netscape Navigator or Opera, since they were slow to download via a modem or had to be purchased from a store.

The case ended up forcing Microsoft to share its APIs with other companies, but it didn’t force it to change any of its code or prevent Microsoft from “tying” other software with Windows in the future.

Another of the details that the millionaire has confessed in the AMA session is that recently replaced your foldable Samsung Galaxy Z Fold3 by the new generation model, Galaxy Z Fold4. However, the change did not cost him a dollar, since it was a gift from the President of Samsung on his last visit to Korea.