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
Reliability is top of the list (of Windows 2000 features) ... People don't want to reboot their systems ever,
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,
If you are going from one of your own PCs to one of your other PCs, we will in the future make that possible. But we don't allow the distribution that is beyond the rights that you have.
If we weren't still hiring great people and pushing ahead at full speed, it would be easy to fall behind and become a mediocre company.
If those children were in rich countries, we would have headlines, we'd take action. We wouldn't rest until every child was protected,
If those are preserved, it'd be nice if a settlement could be reached,
If the 1980s were about quality and the 1990s were about re-engineering, then the 2000s will be about velocity. About how quickly business itself will be transacted. About how information access will alter the lifestyle of consumers and their expectations of business . . . The successful companies of the next decade will be the ones that use digital tools to reinvent the way they work.
There are still some companies out there based on the old thinking,
There are some architecture changes that need to be made,
Having great software that lets your people see digital information, lets them collaborate, lets you build a great Web site, that's going to be very, very important for all companies going forward, ... And Windows 2000 is the key platform where that starts.