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
While we did everything we could to settle this case, and will continue to look for new opportunities to resolve it without further litigation, we believe we have a strong case on appeal.
We hope to find a way to resolve this and put it behind us, ... From the very beginning, we've said we would like nothing better than to settle this case.
The ability to innovate Windows, the ability to maintain the integrity of Windows as a fully designed product -- those are important to us, ... As long as we can keep those intact, it would be great to settle the thing.
Well before the case was filed Microsoft did everything it could to try and settle the case. In fact, there were about 10 days when day and night I was on the phone and made every effort I could.
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.
There has never been any discussion about us (buying) any part of a phone company, British Telecom or any other phone company,
When Dr. Lee was an employee at Microsoft, I thought of him as trustworthy, ... There were a lot of things around his leaving Microsoft that I wouldn't have expected.
We're trying to drive (the technology) to critical mass.
We think we'll revolutionize how people do things in the workplace by bringing streaming media and Microsoft Office together in a combined vision,