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
Security is one of the few things that, if we don't do it right, could take this vision I have talked about and really hold it back,
We need to move beyond voice to voice and data, ... Microsoft can do this by bringing all the pieces together. And once we do, we are really going to surprise people.
We need to make it easier for people to visualize information that comes from different directions,
When these products come out in late 2006...it will be the largest marketing event we've ever had,
There is competition, ... Can any Microsoft endure future competition without innovation? The answer is no. We've got to keep changing.
There are some things that we are always thinking about. For example, when will speech recognition be good enough for everybody to use that? And we have made a lot more progress this year on that. I think we will surprise people a bit on how well we will do on our speech recognition.
There are some new modern-day sort of communists who want to get rid of the incentive for musicians and moviemakers and software makers under various guises. They don't think that those incentives should exist.
We decided that we wanted our developers to come with clear minds, not polluted by some other approach, to learn the way that we liked to develop software, and to put the kind of energy into it that we thought was key.
We're at a very key transition point, ... There are going to be lots of devices, but a new model that makes them work together. It is going to require an architecture approach that is different than what we have today.
We hope to find a way to resolve this and put it behind us, ... From the very beginning, we've said we would like nothing better than to settle this case.
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.
removes the cloud of breakup from the company, reverses the tying claim and says clearly that we did not attempt to monopolize the browser market.
Reliability is top of the list (of Windows 2000 features) ... People don't want to reboot their systems ever,