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 time is really now to change these things. That's true from the point of view of the relationship between the rich world and the poor world, it's true from a security point of view, an economic point of view. ... We're hopeful that the U.S. and other governments will see this as a turning point,
I used to be begging people to pay attention to security. Now they get it. Security is part of everyone's job.
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,
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.
That kernel operating system ... is not the key area, it is the software you have to buy on top of that to deal with management, security and directories and things like that.
It's a big challenge, but we have to make sure that security is not the thing that holds us back.
There is information out in the Internet, out in the cloud, that could be working on your behalf, ... .NET as a platform for next generation Internet integrates privacy, security and puts information where you want it. The user experience will become a lot richer and put the user back in control.
As a leader in the computing industry, Microsoft has a responsibility to help its customers address these concerns, so they no longer have to choose between security and usability. This is a long-term effort.
avoid the kinds of security problems people have had.
If you look at our investment in the next version of Windows, security would jump out as the thing we've spent the most time on. Microsoft has a big responsibility here.
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.
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.