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
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.
Under this lawsuit, a software developer would have to ask questions like, 'Is someone else doing something similar?' Because someone might file a lawsuit, ... This would create a chilling effect on the industry.
The opportunity to do better software has never been stronger. We talk about this digital decade and people living a digital work style or a digital lifestyle when they go home -and that is becoming more and more commonly accepted. As you move things away from paperwork and onto the digital approach, everything is software value-added.
Building on our strengths as a software company, X-Box will offer game developers a powerful platform and game enthusiasts an incredible experience, ... We want X-Box to be the platform of choice for the best and most creative game developers in the world.
Software will be the single most important force in digital entertainment over the next decade, ... XNA underscores Microsoft's commitment to the game industry and our desire to work with partners to take the industry to the next level.
Software substitution, whether it's for drivers or waiters or nurses - it's progressing. Technology over time will reduce demand for jobs, particularly at the lower end of skill set.
Software is working to create an individualized video feed to the screen you're watching.
Software is the place where the action is . . . it is an area that will continue to generate jobs. This is the golden age of software.
Software is redefining how people do things, ... We're nowhere near what we can do.
Software is providing power, but software has got to provide simplicity. And that's why our investment levels are going up, investments in the toughest problems: security, privacy, speech recognition, video recognition, and all of those things will fold into this platform.
Software empowerment can be used here as well.
There are some new modern-day sort of communists who want to get rid of the incentive for musicians and moviemakers and software makers under various guises. They don't think that those incentives should exist.
I think five or six years ago, if you'd said to people that software would be incredible in terms of making photos better, music better, TV better, phone calls very different, they would have been quite skeptical, they would have thought, 'How can software do that? Now, particularly in music and to some degree in TV, they've seen that it makes a huge difference. It allows them to pick the things that they're interested in, it allows them to see it when they want to, to share with friends what they've seen and what they like.
If as many people paid for software as they do here, we'd have well more than 10 times the business we do today.