Charlie Rose Science Series
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01/30/2007
Bill Gates
A rebroadcast of a conversation with Bill Gates
A conversation with Microsoft founder Bill Gates about building Microsoft, the future of technology, and his newest focus, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (from November 23, 2006).
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About above's comment: "the poorly designed products that his company sells" -- I find it very sad when I read these type of comments mainly in US press. Anyone who has designed software knows that a program is basically a set of processes that generate an output based on an input. Given some logic nowadays software is capable of amazing flexibility allowing creative and intelligent people to configure variations for constumized applications. That is why an OS a the base of the application application layer has to be oper source,etc,etc... Having said that it is actually increadible how MS has been able to permanentely revise and improve cores such as XP for millions of possible inputs. The premise of apple's perfection is in my opinion a well marketed myth. Apple's OS flexibility is very poor decreasing in this way the number of possible inputs giving the impresion of a more sturdy platform. In my opinion Gates vision and ability to see the big picture and deliver has contributed humany zillion times more than what he has in his pocket. --Thank you Bill Gates and team! (I wish MS would get involved in OLPC and delivery real low cost high volume as he mentions at the begining).
at 53.00 he leaked some details of table computing bak in 2006 only...
Philanthropy aside, it's remarkable how Gates sleeps at night making billions off the poorly designed products that his company sells. I find it continually frustrating that no one pushes Gates on the issue of how Microsoft not only lifts a lot of it's ideas from other companies (notably, Apple) and tries to pass it off as their own invention, when in actuality it is a second rate version of somone else's original idea. Charlie is the best interviewer working in television today and I've seen him challenge guests in a respectful manner in order to get them talking about tough questions. I wish he would have done more of that with Gates in any of the number of interviews he's done with him. Nonetheless, I remain a faithful and fervent fan of Rose.