Consumers are getting more connected, and software is the center of that. The idea of holding meetings is different. The phone is different. That's because software is the center of it.
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In a sense this is the end of an era. Microsoft and the original PC rose to prominence based on the MS-DOS product. And even as Windows came along, Windows 3.1, Windows 95, Windows 98, underneath MS-DOS was running there. Windows simply sat on top of MS-DOS. Well, so today it really is actually the end of the MS-DOS era. It's also, we would say, the end of the Windows 95 era.Bill Gates
There are some things that we are always thinking about. For example, when will speech recognition be good enough for everybody to use that And we have made a lot more progress this year on that. I think we will surprise people a bit on how well we will do on our speech recognition.
Bill Gates
The whole idea of the H1-B thing is don't let too many smart people come into the country. Basically, it doesn't make sense. You can't imagine how tough it is to plan as a company where we say, 'Let's have this engineering group and staff it.' You get a few and then you go through these periods where nobody can come in.
Bill Gates
The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.
Bill Gates
It is certainly a dream come true in that we set a computer on every desk in every home and have the level of sales and profitability and employees we have today,
Bill Gates
People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines... There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters.
Bill Gates
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