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
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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.
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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.
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Getting the video sources into the PC has been a limiting factor. We're making progress making the video content easily accessible on the PC.
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Let's drive not just breakthroughs in new products, but new ways to give more and more people access to these inventions and their benefits. This is a broad and important mission, and I believe we all have a part to play in it.
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We are embarking on the richest series of product releases in our company's 30-year history. Beyond the opportunities this presents for our customers and partners, these new live offerings represent an incredibly powerful way of enabling customers to more quickly access and benefit from the innovations being developed by our product teams.
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We went down to Apple to talk to them about putting QuickTime into our media player,
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We don't think there'll be a huge swing to one model at the expense of the other.
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We are trying to put a 'services plus software' mentality into many of the product groups inside Microsoft.
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These proposals will have a chilling effect on innovation in the high technology industry, ... Microsoft could never have developed Windows under these rules. Looking forward, this kind of regulation would make it impossible for Microsoft to develop the next generation of great software.
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These new offerings demonstrate how software is evolving through the power of services in ways that enable more dynamic and relevant experiences for people. Our goal is to make Windows, Office and Xbox further come alive for our customers at work, home and play.
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These mergers really don't change all that much over night. I didn't expect Oracle to buy Siebel, but they did,
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The Times Reader is a powerful example of how companies can use software to forge new types of customer connections that span beyond the browser to the desktop and mobile devices. The New York Times is setting a standard not only for media organizations, but for all companies looking for new ways to interact with consumers through software.