Predictions made by Bill Gates
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Founder of Microsoft and world's richest person.
| Who's Wrong Prediction Scorecard for Bill Gates | ||
| Total Known Predictions | 5 | |
| Percent right | 25% | (1 Right, 3 Wrong, 1 Pending) |
| Bill Gates Predictions | |
| #1: Entered by lhazlette (36) on 12/30/2006 » Reference URL | |
| Date Made: | 1/15/2004 |
| Prediction: | In January 2004, Gates said "Two years from now, spam will be solved." |
| Prediction Description: | Made the prediction at the 2004 World Economic Forum in Switzerland. |
| Outcome: | Wrong |
| Outcome Description: | Spam is definitely NOT solved. Sorry Bill. |
| #2: Entered by alex (135) on 11/27/2006 | |
| Date Made: | 10/2/2006 |
| Prediction: | It'd be a good idea to create a Microsoft competitor to the iPod and enter the mp3 gadget space. |
| Prediction Description: | Microsoft created the Zune mp3 player to compete head-to-head with Apple's iPod. |
| Outcome: | Pending |
| #3: Entered by alex (135) on 1/2/2007 » Reference URL | |
| Date Made: | 11/1/1996 |
| Prediction: | Gates predicts the concept of video-on-demand. |
| Prediction Description: | In his book The Road Ahead, published in November 1996, he said "After they air, these [television] shows – as well as thousand of movies and virtually all other kinds of video – will be available whenever you want to view them." |
| Outcome: | Right |
| #4: Entered by alex (135) on 11/26/2006 | |
| Date Made: | 4/10/2001 |
| Prediction: | In 2001, Bill Gates predicted the tablet PC would be the most popular form of PC sold in America. |
| Prediction Description: | Gates showed prototype Tablet PCs at the Comdex show in Las Vegas in 2001 - a year ahead of their 2002 launch - and at the show said in a company news release, 'It's a PC that is virtually without limits and within five years I predict it will be the most popular form of PC sold in America.' |
| Outcome: | Wrong |
| Outcome Description: | The Tablet PC has managed to do only marginally better than the now defunct Comdex trade show he originally made the announcement at. A handful of vendors market Tablet PCs, but specialist markets like health care account for a large percentage of sales. Other users and those in business have yet to take to the form-factor in a big way. |
| #5: Entered by alex (135) on 11/26/2006 | |
| Date Made: | 8/2/1981 |
| Prediction: | 640K ought to be enough for anybody. |
| Prediction Description: | Believed to be an urban legend, but some still believe. |
| Outcome: | Wrong |
| Outcome Description: | Modern computers come equipped with over 1000 times the 640K memory barrier that Gates alledgedly alluded to. |
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