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
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.
These mergers really don't change all that much over night. I didn't expect Oracle to buy Siebel, but they did,
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.
Ray has long demonstrated his passion for software, and through his work at Groove he also came to realize the transformative potential for combining software and services.
Private philanthropy is no substitute for governmental action here,
Our services have started out as very inexpensive but not feature-rich, ... Our servers are very feature-rich. So as we bring these things together, we give you the richness and also the choice of having it as server or as a service.
People hate, hate, hate to subscribe to things on the Internet.
committed to continue to hire great people, listen to customers, invest in future research and development, and create the next great generation of software.
Digital music is one of the fastest growing segments of the online entertainment industry, and by promoting Rhapsody's subscription music services from within MSN, we will provide a better experience for our users.
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.
Computation has become a tool for all the sciences, ... We need an approach that scales from the smallest supercomputer up to the largest.
And we marvel about how, as two young overachievers, we began a great adventure on the fringes of a little-known industry and it landed us at the center of an amazing universe.
Encore implies that life is not a continuous process, that there's some sort of finite number of achievements that defines your life. For me, there are a lot of exciting things in front of me at Microsoft, things that we want to see if we can make ha