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
Computation has become a tool for all the sciences, ... We need an approach that scales from the smallest supercomputer up to the largest.
We have competitors who will seize on these approaches and challenge us.
We need an approach here that scales from the smallest supercomputer up to the very largest,
We need highly educated leaders, skilled in research and analysis, who will undertake a creative approach to defining and solving problems so that we can address the injustices and inequities around our world. On graduation from Cambridge, Gates Scholars are in an ideal position to bring new vision and apply their learning to the benefit of society at large.
Older systems were secure because they were isolated. You can't layer on top of a system elements to make it secure; you get too much of a mismatch between the components. This design approach is absolutely critical--thinking these things through from the beginning and not bringing security in at the end is very important. This has been a big shift for Microsoft.
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.
Personally, I'd like to see more of our leaders take a technocratic approach to solving our biggest problems.
Today we are using passwords, and they won't cut it. We need to move to multifunction authentication. A lot of that will be using a smart-card approach that needs to be built down into the system.
This coming 'services wave' will be very disruptive, ... We have competitors who will seize on these approaches and challenge us ? still, the opportunity to lead is very clear.
Governments around the world tell us that to interoperate effectively they need a more structured approach to building information technology (IT) systems.
I never expected Microsoft to be so successful, ... We're not ashamed that we've taken the low-price, high-volume approach here, which is different than the competitors, who are trying to get a leg-up from the government.
We went down to Apple to talk to them about putting QuickTime into our media player,
We don't think there'll be a huge swing to one model at the expense of the other.
We are trying to put a 'services plus software' mentality into many of the product groups inside Microsoft.