Bill Gates: Transitioning into the Future
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Bill Gates has been at the helm of Microsoft for the entire existence of Microsoft. It's the only place he's worked and he's getting ready to step down from his day to day responsibilities in his office on the Redmond campus. Bill's employment future will
be centered around running his philanthropic enterprise, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Bill is fundamentally shifting his focus from achieving his dream of "a PC in every home" to helping realize the vision of "healthy people in
every country". He talks about how each one of us can help make this dream come true by donation of time, expertise and, of course, money.
Charles caught up with Bill to discuss his transition from full time at Microsoft to full time at his global philanthropic foundation (he will still be involved with major decisions given that he will retain his post as the Chairman of Microsoft and his email address will still be functional
).
Questions addressed in this conversation include: What's on Bill's mind as he prepares to step away from his full time responsibilities at Microsoft? What was his rationale for making the decision? What was behind his decision to put Ray Ozzie in the role of Microsoft Chief Software Architect? What does a CSA actually do? Why is Microsoft so focused on competing with Google and is search as important as we think? What's top of mind for Bill that Developers who target our platform should pay attention to now and in the next decade? How can Microsoft become more agile given the complexity that arises from so much asynchronous innovation spanning disparate product units? Why does Windows still matter in an Internet world?
Enjoy. This is a good one. Thank you again, Bill, for your support of C9 over the years, the incredible innovation you brought to market and the incredible generosity of your foundation.
Charles caught up with Bill to discuss his transition from full time at Microsoft to full time at his global philanthropic foundation (he will still be involved with major decisions given that he will retain his post as the Chairman of Microsoft and his email address will still be functional
).Questions addressed in this conversation include: What's on Bill's mind as he prepares to step away from his full time responsibilities at Microsoft? What was his rationale for making the decision? What was behind his decision to put Ray Ozzie in the role of Microsoft Chief Software Architect? What does a CSA actually do? Why is Microsoft so focused on competing with Google and is search as important as we think? What's top of mind for Bill that Developers who target our platform should pay attention to now and in the next decade? How can Microsoft become more agile given the complexity that arises from so much asynchronous innovation spanning disparate product units? Why does Windows still matter in an Internet world?
Enjoy. This is a good one. Thank you again, Bill, for your support of C9 over the years, the incredible innovation you brought to market and the incredible generosity of your foundation.
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I suppose it'd be a step too far to have Bill post here just once...
...right?
Haven't been watching the video page lately; linked here from Jeff's twitter. Thanks Jeff.
Wait wait wait, there's some sort of cloud services thing Ray Ozzie has been working on that isn't Mesh, and is secret enough to bleep out even the codename? Spill the beans, man! We can't wait until PDC!
Great interview, Charles. Really informative. Bill remains one of the most interesting people in IT.
Come to PDC 08 to learn first hand about [bleep]!
C
My statement is: Keep it simple. Let the user decide and let the developers provide.
but who bleeped him?
also, a post from bill in this thread would be really really cool
Ayyy, incredible guy - watched him on bbc the other night (I think there was a comment about channel9 briefly on it), I have to admit- I assumed bill would be like most "managers" (for lack of better word) and would have lost contact with the users and those that really develope the software.. but that certainly isn't true.
Also Bas, isn't one of the big features in windows 7 suposed to be a native web services communication layer?
I checked it out on an internal site (http://[beep]) and I think I can say that [beep] is totally [beep]ing awesome
At least keep them separate from the regular comments.
Charles, you guys should use cams with progressive scan the next time. The interview is great (actually, it is really cool) but the quality isn't because you can see the artifacts of the interleaced scan cameras (when you or Bill moves fast, you can see that only half of the lines are updated)...
and also, please dont hard encode those black borders
Great interview as always though
Why must you taunt us, Sampy!
I've always admired how humble and calm Bill remains.
Compare this video to any with a certain guy by the name of Larry.
Why there was no "funny video" about BG's "last day at MS"?... Strange...
PS: Yep, I'm bloody bst*rd, but that stupid video is really annoying...
Thanks!
..Ben
C
Glad you like dit! Re Vista, Bill does address Windows, specifically. The context for this conversation is the future and Vista is here now... He explains how he thinks Windows will remain pertinent in an increasingly Internet-connected world of servers and services that provide data for any device. I thought his answer was spot on: Windows will drive service innovation and provide the mechanisms for truly rich user experiences that consume from the cloud.
Cheers,
C
C
Great interview.
Congratulations Charles.
Will you be interviewing Ray Ozzie next for Channel 9?
It is really fascinating to hear from BillG what is gonna be next for us!
Thanks,
Ibrahim
http://www.ibrahimdurmus.com/
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