My tax return in the United States has to be kept on a special computer because their normal computers can't deal with the numbers. So I am constantly getting these notices telling me I haven't paid something when really it is just on the wrong computer. |
My value is still so much higher than I ever expected it to be by a factor of about 50. So the fact that at one point it was say, a factor of 60, well -- that wealth is all going back to society anyway. |
Nathan has been an invaluable contributor to Microsoft, the technology industry and to me personally over the past 13 years. Frankly, I would rather he continue his work at Microsoft, but I support his decision to take a much needed break and explore his passion for science. |
Never before in history has innovation offered promise of so much to so many in so short a time. |
No one should think that shareholder value would be preserved ... Microsoft would be greatly damaged by this kind of split. |
No one should underestimate the PC and what a valuable tool it has become, |
No one will need more than 637 kb of memory for a personal computer. - said in the early 1970s |
now that the government has decided to sue. |
Now the growth in the last year in Europe was very rapid and so you can say the gap is closing a bit. But I think it's still an issue of great concern. A lot of kids graduate from college in Europe without having the in-depth exposure that most U.S. students receive. So there's work to be done. |
Often you have to rely on intuition. |
Oh, I think there are a lot of people who would be buying and selling online today that go up there and they get the information, but then when it comes time to type in their credit card they think twice because they're not sure about how that might get out and what that might mean for them. |
Older systems were secure because they were isolated. You can't layer on top of a system elements to make it secure; you get too much of a mismatch between the components. This design approach is absolutely critical--thinking these things through from the beginning and not bringing security in at the end is very important. This has been a big shift for Microsoft. |
Once they get that opened, they'll essentially be running as close to normal as possible, |
One thing people underestimate is how markets don't allow anyone to do anything except make better and better products. |
Oracle has an enterprise sales force in the model of IBM, but if I had been there [as Oracle chief executive] they would have been in Web servers and collaboration software. They only have databases, |