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
Microsoft's platforms and services, combined with BT's mobile networks, will enable users to access rich, interactive information anytime, anywhere and on any device.
Microsoft's key goal is to be able to have the freedom to innovate like we always have, where we decide what goes into the product, where we can support the Internet in the product, ... We're simply sticking up for that. We're hard at work on the new products while the competitors are trying to use regulation to slow us down.
Microsoft is running its entire business, Exchange Server and SAP, and everything on Windows 2000,
I think several of us were spoiled by having access to supercomputers, ... You got this sense that you personally wanted to have a tool like that.
I think if you go out five years from now, and look at portable computers, virtually all of those will have this tablet capability.
Windows and the consumer electronics industry are changing dramatically, people live in a world with more digital content and information than ever before.
willing to go a long way to address the government's concerns.
Who can afford to do professional work for nothing? What hobbyist can put 3-man years into programming, finding all bugs, documenting his product and distribute for free? The fact is, no one besides us has invested a lot of money in hobby software.
We'll definitely have a big Office year this year,
It is certainly a dream come true in that we set a computer on every desk in every home and have the level of sales and profitability and employees we have today,
It is employing every part of the (software) ecosystem.
Melinda and I are thrilled to have someone with Dr. Yamada's breadth of experience leading the foundation's work on global health. He's organized the best talent around big challenges, knows what it takes to bring promising science from the lab to people in need, and understands how to engage new partners. We look forward to working with him to help close the gap in health between rich and poor countries.
We need an approach here that scales from the smallest supercomputer up to the very largest,
We need in this industry small software companies with two or five people that are very, very specialized, ... We also need many giants.