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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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- Microsoft
- Bill Gates
- technology
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Matt H 10/10/2008 06:55 PM Report
I am disappointed that Bill Gates is using the success of his monopolistic company that produces terrible software to funnel money out of our country to improve other nations. It's sad that the same countries they hire their software engineers from are the same countries that are receiving aid from their charity. I don't get it... Bill Gates seems dissatisfied with the United States by the way he talks. He is turning his back on the same people and country that made him rich. Start with change in your own backyard, buddy. There is a whole hell of a lot that can be improved in the United States with this money.
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Darrell 08/25/2008 05:45 PM Report
"Philanthropy aside"??? You think that Bill Gates who has saved millions of lives with his philanthropy should sleep poorly at night because you don't like the way Excel arranged its toolbar? You want to complain about your perception of Microsoft "stealing" Apple's idea (which Apple stole from Xerox) and throw his efforts towards finding a cure for malaria aside? I strongly suggest you rethink your priorities. Even if I agreed with you (and I don't), to niggle about software bugs in a context where worldwide health is being aided immeasurably is an indicator of how brainwashed some people allow themselves to be in their hatred towards Microsoft and Bill Gates.
Jose Ignacio 12/29/2007 01:57 AM Report
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).
crux 09/23/2007 07:47 PM Report
at 53.00 he leaked some details of table computing bak in 2006 only...
JT 05/03/2007 07:12 PM Report
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.