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
The vision is really about empowering workers, giving them all the information about what's going on so they can do a lot more than they've done in the past.
The very interface you see is driving off role-based definitions, with a richer connection to Office than any application in the past. And we will make extensibility capabilities available broadly.
There will be 'two societies' in the future: high-paid knowledge workers and low-paid service workers.
And we marvel about how, as two young overachievers, we began a great adventure on the fringes of a little-known industry and it landed us at the center of an amazing universe.
Encore implies that life is not a continuous process, that there's some sort of finite number of achievements that defines your life. For me, there are a lot of exciting things in front of me at Microsoft, things that we want to see if we can make ha
Electronic mail has been a huge phenomena for us. It gives us a little bit of a closer feel. Even if somebody's office is in another building, you're always sending them messages. And even if they're off in another country it makes that easy. So, we
Europe has really come a long way. The awareness of politicians about technology is a new thing,
Even for us that's a huge, huge investment,
fantastic things in the field of technology and I am excited to be here.
Everything we did that's in that trial, including support for the Internet, it's one of the greatest things we've ever done.
There's really only one that they've done a leadership thing in, which is in search, and search today is very poor compared to what it will be even a year or two years from now -- their search, our search, everybody's search. So there's so much room to do better, to have that work well with the other offerings.
There's still a lot of common technology and a common mission that spans all these different groups.
Ray has never really been an outsider. Even when he was developing (Lotus) Notes, he was helping us improve Windows. Moreover, Ray is super well-respected inside Microsoft, just as he is throughout the industry.
Ray has long demonstrated his passion for software, and through his work at Groove he also came to realize the transformative potential for combining software and services.