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's argument boils down to a claim that we are putting too much Internet support into our products, ... This is a turnaround from what everyone was saying a few years ago.
The whole idea of the H1-B thing is don't let too many smart people come into the country. Basically, it doesn't make sense. You can't imagine how tough it is to plan as a company where we say, 'Let's have this engineering group and staff it.' You get a few and then you go through these periods where nobody can come in.
Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself.
Security is one of the few things that, if we don't do it right, could take this vision I have talked about and really hold it back,
As we step up malaria research, it's also critically important to save lives today with existing tools. Bed nets cost just a few dollars each, but only a small fraction of African children sleep under one.
There's a basic philosophy here that by empowering...workers you'll make their jobs far more interesting, and they'll be able to work at a higher level than they would have without all that information just a few clicks away.
It's a concept that in the past might have been thought of as an executive information system that was just for a few top people, ... It'd take millions of dollars to set up, the system would be hard-wired, and it would provide only a subset of data. Today, in literally minutes you can add data and status reports and your personal digital dashboard will update that.
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.
In five years the cost of computation will really be effectively decreased. We'll be able to put on somebody's desk, for an incredibly low cost, a processor with far more capability than you could ever take advantage of.
In India it will be a decade before we get that level.
In most companies, you don't get too much mail where people are saying, 'Hey, we lost this account.' But that's what you really need to know about, because it might change what you're doing. You need to know about competitive activity. You need to kn
In late 2006 when these products come out, they will be a wave.
It's simply the ingenuity of the software developers -- their brilliance, their energy in coming together and writing these software packages. At Microsoft, we need to recruit the best and the brightest.
Steve will absolutely be the business leader, ... I decided I wanted to spend more time with our product groups and drive the breakthroughs. Think of Steve as the business leader and customer champion.