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
Our vision connecting the world of PC's and TV's has long included advanced broadband capabilities to deliver video, data and interactivity to the home,
The message that personal computers can do neat things, that software is great stuff, that there's an exciting opportunity here and Microsoft is involved in it, that's a worthwhile message for Microsoft to get out.
The digital decade is not just about any particular aspect of computing, taking enterprises, knowledge workers and homes and building standards that connect all of those together. The key piece in the center is trustworthy systems, systems that do what you expect on an extremely reliable basis. So in each of these areas we have new scenarios, new ways that people will be using their computers that they never did before.
This is what competition is all about, ... Sure, we want new versions of Windows to be popular.
There's really only one that they've done a leadership thing in, which is in search, and search today is very poor compared to what it will be even a year or two years from now -- their search, our search, everybody's search. So there's so much room to do better, to have that work well with the other offerings.
Microsoft has been in India for 15 years now, and our commitment continues to grow. India's exceptional IT talent and vibrant local ISV industry is helping to empower a truly global knowledge economy.
I think if you go out five years from now, and look at portable computers, virtually all of those will have this tablet capability.
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.
The frontiers were sort of wide open. It was that sense of excitement that we really wanted to spark in everybody else wherever we went.
could be read to ban Microsoft from competing in any product category. I know such a ban would be unreasonable, and yet that is what the language of Section 8 appears to provide for.
This is a key element of the technology industry getting re-energized and putting productivity back into other sectors of the economy that can get the economy back to where it was a couple of years ago,
I will continue to value his friendship and counsel in the years ahead,
Technology has always been about making the impossible possible, and with Windows XP we hope to do just that, open up new possibilities.
By 2035, there will be almost no poor countries left in the world. Almost all countries will be what we now call lower-middle income or richer.