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
The government is going to file a lawsuit. Microsoft is innocent of any of these charges and we're certainly going to defend ourselves vigorously,
You have to have a certain realism that government is a pretty blunt instrument, and without the constant attention of highly qualified people with the right metrics, it will fall into not doing things very well.
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,
That way you can be certain to learn something you didn't know previously.
Money has no utility to me beyond a certain point.
I can understand wanting to have millions of dollars; there's a certain freedom, meaningful freedom, that comes with that.
It's unfortunate that a settlement wasn't possible, ... Microsoft certainly went the extra mile.
I'd say that my job, throughout all this, has been, I think, the most fun job I can imagine having. And partly the people I've gotten to work with outside the company. Certainly there are great people inside the company. And certainly, for at least a
This will continue, ... They'll have a new version, we'll have a new version. It's a healthy competition that you expect in the computer software market.
The phone is very different. The idea of a meeting is very different.
We lusted after some of those things (Palm) did well, and we wanted to combine it with the things we did well. It's wonderful to see those things come together.
We lusted after some of the things (Palm) did well and wanted to combine them with some of the things that we did well.
With our foundation, with others ... we're getting the brightest scientists to come and work on these problems,
The reason you see open source there at all is because we came in and said there should be a platform that's identical with millions and millions of machines.