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
During Paul's 14 years with Microsoft, he has played a key role in virtually every major initiative, from the evolution of Windows and Office to the .NET strategy.
As we step up malaria research, it's also critically important to save lives today with existing tools. Bed nets cost just a few dollars each, but only a small fraction of African children sleep under one.
Ray has never really been an outsider. Even when he was developing (Lotus) Notes, he was helping us improve Windows. Moreover, Ray is super well-respected inside Microsoft, just as he is throughout the industry.
This coming 'services wave' will be very disruptive, ... We have competitors who will seize on these approaches and challenge us ? still, the opportunity to lead is very clear.
Software empowerment can be used here as well.
All operating systems, including IBM's, Sun's, Apple's and many others are including Internet browsing capabilities, ... The beauty of the Internet is its openness. It cannot be controlled or dominated or cut off because it is simply a constantly changing series of linkages.
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.
Partners need to come in and be the ones who pull together the solution,
The first five years have so much to do with how the next 80 turn out.
Getting the video sources into the PC has been a limiting factor. We're making progress making the video content easily accessible on the PC.
I'm not saying we won't participate in this frenzy a little bit,
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.
As people see how we've broken down the boundaries between Office and the Internet; as they see how we let them share information ... the things we've done with e-mail, the things we've done with the recovery capabilities, they'll see that this is a very big launch of Office,
They will provide us competition in some areas,