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
The criticism is (that) we do new software too fast with too many new features, and that (that) makes it hard for people to compete against us,
The challenge is not simply to say 'block all information flow,'
The key principles are very beneficial to consumers - they deserve to have us putting new capabilities in,
The initial shipments of Xbox 360 will be based on today's DVD format. We are looking at whether future versions of Xbox 360 will incorporate an additional capability of an HD DVD player or something else.
These are jobs that pay great, ... These are fun jobs, and so you'd think right now we'd be having more people applying in them than ever. .But in fact somehow we haven't got the word out. We haven't made it clear the steps to get the right skills to get these jobs.
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,
The home itself will be like a computer system,
The growth in employment for Microsoft will be more in India than in the United States.
The greatest surprise in poverty reduction ... is China.
The impact on our society of the computing revolution is simply breathtaking -- it has changed the way we work, play, learn and communicate.
The incredible momentum around all these new products and services shows that the digital lifestyle has truly gone mainstream this year. Now it's time to bring together the devices, software and services in people's lives and take all these experiences to the next level.
The idea that you can find your friends, you can talk, you can see who's the best, you can have contests - it's redefining how gamers think of the machine, it's making it more social. As we spread this idea across all our products, that's where we'll take the leadership role.
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.
You want to have more information that you can just glance at and work with in a very simple way. The idea of a big screen that uses your full field of vision makes sense to us.