Word: orly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Gates: We'd love to resolve this thing, and we're going to be pragmatic about it. But at the heart of this case is a principle that's pretty important: our right to add features to Windows. We have been taking things that people demand, whether it be adding...
Gates: The only thing that we know for sure that would be bad for consumers is anything that blocked us from being able to innovate Windows or anything that made it so that when people buy Windows they don't know what is in it. Beyond those two principles, we...
Gates: Soon you'll have not only your PC as an Internet device; you're also going to have phones with screens, Web TV and digital set-top boxes. So the question is, How do you put all these pieces together so that it's easy for users, and they...
Gates: Yes. The new things we're planning for Windows, whether it's reading handwriting or natural language [voice recognition], those are exactly the type of things that would be blocked under the logic that says that our putting Internet support into Windows was something we should not have had...
Every year some 400,000 Americans undergo bypass surgery to shunt the flow of blood around blocked arteries in their heart; 500,000 other patients opt for a different procedure called angioplasty, which clears a channel through the bottlenecks with thin, inflatable balloons. Most people who have these operations get...