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
I've been struck by the role that technology plays and especially that the Internet played during this crisis. On September 11th hundreds of millions of people relied on the Internet to get news and to communicate with loved ones.
Microsoft's key goal is to be able to have the freedom to innovate like we always have, where we decide what goes into the product, where we can support the Internet in the product, ... We're simply sticking up for that. We're hard at work on the new products while the competitors are trying to use regulation to slow us down.
The appeals court already has affirmed Microsoft's right to build Internet capabilities into the Windows operating system to benefit consumers.
Today's realignment optimizes Microsoft's ability to take advantage of the business and technical opportunities we see as customers rapidly adopt the Internet and intranets into their daily lives,
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.
That information essentially will be magically stored on the Internet itself, ... With any device, once you prove who you are with a pass card or a smart card, the things you care about, (such as) e-mail, bookmarks . . . will appear on that device, but in the way that matters to you.
If your business is not on the Internet, then your business will be out of business.
A fundamental new rule for business is that the Internet changes everything.
The future of advertising is the Internet.
The Internet is the easiest thing to get into. To be an Internet retailer, you just get that URL.
For a highly motivated learner, it's not like knowledge is secret and somehow the Internet made it not secret. It just made knowledge easy to find. If you're a motivated enough learner, books are pretty good.
Being able to see an activity log of where a kid has been going on the Internet is a good thing.
If you count E-mail, I'm on the Internet all day, every day.
Music, even with these dial-up connections you have to the Internet, is very practical to download.