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
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.
In fact, batteries haven't improved over the last 100 years as much as they would need to in order to make that happen. So I'm invested in a lot of battery companies - and there's a lot that exists I'm not in. They're all having a tough time achieving it.
The world has been very careful to pick very few diseases for eradication, because it is very tough.
I want to admit that I am an optimist. Any tough problem, I think it can be solved.
Any version of Windows is going to have lots of great new things that people use and things that are tough.
Although it is almost eliminated in rich countries, it's still one of the biggest killers worldwide. This is a very tough disease.
This is a very tough disease. It is going to take all of us -- private sector, the pharmaceutical companies, philanthropy and governments in countries that have the disease -- to participate as well.
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.
I'm excited by the possibilities I see for medicine, for education and of course for technology, ... And I believe that through our natural inventiveness, creativity and willingness to solve tough problems, we're going to make some amazing achievements in all these areas in my lifetime.
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.
These new offerings demonstrate how software is evolving through the power of services in ways that enable more dynamic and relevant experiences for people. Our goal is to make Windows, Office and Xbox further come alive for our customers at work, home and play.