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Roundup: A vintage Bill Gates rant, A123 s grid ambitions, Japanese browsers and more

Posted on June 25, 2008

Bill Gates reflects on crappy Windows experiences As the beginning of a farewell series to Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, the Seattle PI has printed a long, stream-of-consciousness rant by Gates about the frustrations of using a piece of Windows software in 2003. The lack of attention to usability represented by these experiences blows my mind, Gates says in summation. Any ideas for retirement presents? A123 looks to electrical grid storage market Wildly successful (so far) battery startup A123 has signed contracts with several utilities to plug its lithium-ion batteries into t...

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