(Monday, November 17)

InfoWorld: Gates sets 'seamless computing' vision: November 16, 2003: By : Platforms

lol, Come one, wtf??!? Know your enemy............ HINT: it ain't IBM. "In a lighter moment, which has become a traditional part of Gates' keynote speech at Comdex, he showed a spoof of The Matrix with Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer cast as Neo and himself as Morpheus. Some might think The Matrix is an odd choice for Microsoft to parody since the movie is about the human race being enslaved by malevolent cyberintelligence, basically software. Neo, a hacker, joins Morpheus and his group to destroy The Matrix. In Microsoft's version, The Matrix is a world filled with IT consultants working for IBM Corp. and selling Linux, while the world outside The Matrix is Windows, which 'frees the IT masses,' Gates says in the parody. " InfoWorld: Gates sets 'seamless computing' vision: November 16, 2003: By : Platforms: