Bill Gates
Bill Gates
William Henry "Bill" Gates IIIis an American business magnate, entrepreneur, philanthropist, investor, and programmer. In 1975, Gates and Paul Allen co-founded Microsoft, which became the world's largest PC software company. During his career at Microsoft, Gates held the positions of chairman, CEO and chief software architect, and was the largest individual shareholder until May 2014. Gates has authored and co-authored several books...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth28 October 1955
CitySeattle, WA
CountryUnited States of America
(High definition DVD) is the last physical media format there will ever be. There won't be one after this one.
The idea that you can find your friends, you can talk, you can see who's the best, you can have contests - it's redefining how gamers think of the machine, it's making it more social. As we spread this idea across all our products, that's where we'll take the leadership role.
You want to have more information that you can just glance at and work with in a very simple way. The idea of a big screen that uses your full field of vision makes sense to us.
You've got the weight on me, I'll give you that.
The goals and the deal are quite different, so obviously they would have known they are quite different,
The frontiers were sort of wide open. It was that sense of excitement that we really wanted to spark in everybody else wherever we went.
The criticism is (that) we do new software too fast with too many new features, and that (that) makes it hard for people to compete against us,
The challenge is not simply to say 'block all information flow,'
The growth in employment for Microsoft will be more in India than in the United States.
The greatest surprise in poverty reduction ... is China.
The impact on our society of the computing revolution is simply breathtaking -- it has changed the way we work, play, learn and communicate.
The incredible momentum around all these new products and services shows that the digital lifestyle has truly gone mainstream this year. Now it's time to bring together the devices, software and services in people's lives and take all these experiences to the next level.
The digital decade is not just about any particular aspect of computing, taking enterprises, knowledge workers and homes and building standards that connect all of those together. The key piece in the center is trustworthy systems, systems that do what you expect on an extremely reliable basis. So in each of these areas we have new scenarios, new ways that people will be using their computers that they never did before.
The legal process can be hard on anyone who goes through it, and the last four years have been challenging for all of us here at Microsoft, and for me personally, ... But despite the many twists and turns in the case, I've always had faith in our company and our employees and in the magic of the software we're creating.