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Paul Allen has died at age 65:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/oct/15/paul-allen-co-founder-microsoft-dies
Paul Allen, who co-founded Microsoft with his childhood friend Bill Gates, has died. He was 65.
Allen's company Vulcan said in a statement that he died Monday. Earlier this month Allen said the cancer he was treated for in 2009, non-Hodgkin lymphoma, had returned.
Allen, who was an avid sports fan, owned the Portland Trail Blazers and the Seattle Seahawks.
Of course the article has more information. There was more to Paul Allen that just mentioned above. Bound to hit multiple sources with different takes so be on the lookout for something from a source you like.
takyon: Allen Institute bio and Vulcan Inc. statement.
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(Score: 2) by bzipitidoo on Tuesday October 16 2018, @02:29PM (1 child)
Oh yes, even if MS was on board with LANs, circa 1992 they were definitely pooh poohing the whole idea of the Internet. Supposedly Bill Gates himself was the person who realized that attitude was wrong and lead the change in opinion, turned MS around. But that may be giving Gates too much credit, and there are hints that "genius founder personally saves the company from a grave strategic blunder" was some revisionist history.
And was not Trumpet Winsock 3rd party software? Because at that time Microsoft was dropping the ball?
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Nuke on Tuesday October 16 2018, @06:29PM
As the boss, only Gates was in a position to turn MS around, but at one time he was actually resisting including TCP/IP capability in Windows. The earlier versions of Windows 95 did not even have Internet Explorer installed by default. He only turned round after nearly everyone else in the World (including his own staff) was goading or laughing at him for being behind the curve. So much for the "Great Seer".
Whatever MS did as a company, Gates must be held personally responsible for his book "The Road Ahead", and in the first edition (late 1995) it is clear that he missed the point of the internet. The book was received with some derision by knowledgable reviewers; The New York Times for example said that Gates "has been caught flat-footed by [the Internet's] sudden emergence". Gates (or his ghost writer) hastily produced a revised second edition in response to the criticism; MS company policy was also revised. I like to say that Gates' "Road Ahead" contained a U-turn.