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
Part of India's great success in the IT sector comes from the fantastic investment that the government has made over decades in institutions like the Indian Institutes of Technology. India only has six or seven million seats at its universities, and it will need 20 to 25 million, so I think this is a great opportunity to rethink the idea of a university.
Partners need to come in and be the ones who pull together the solution,
Password systems really won't cut it. (Firms) need to move to multi-factor authentication, and a lot of that will be smart cards.
Paul was instrumental in the creation of Microsoft and has played an important role in the success and direction of our company throughout the years,
Part of the goal here is to take all these transactions, these business understandings, and really get those into digital form,
Some global health problems, like AIDS, have no easy solution -- but this isn't one of them. The world has an opportunity to stop millions of newborn deaths each year.
It has been a great year for global health to get more visibility. The more people know about it, the more they want to act.
The ability to really withhold information no longer exists.
The ability to innovate Windows, the ability to maintain the integrity of Windows as a fully designed product -- those are important to us, ... As long as we can keep those intact, it would be great to settle the thing.
The amount of time we spend here and having our people here full-time is definitely on the increase,
The appeals court already has affirmed Microsoft's right to build Internet capabilities into the Windows operating system to benefit consumers.
The arrival of lots of low-cost microprocessors (and) the ability to connect those together with a fairly high-speed data network has led to an exciting new way of thinking about running these high-end applications,
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.