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:ABC News: One-on-One with Bill Gates
ABC News: One-on-One with Bill Gates
Feb 18, 2005, 01 :45 UTC (24 Talkback[s]) (8762 reads)

(Other stories by Peter Jennings)

[ Thanks to SamIam for this link. ]

"JENNINGS: I read an article coming up here on Firefox (Web browser) and its perceived ability to do this better than you. Is that fair?

"GATES: Well, there's competition in every place that we're in. The browser space that we are in we have about 90 percent. Sure Firefox has come along and the press love the idea of that. Our commitment is to keep our browser that competes with Firefox to be the best browser -- best in security, best in features. In fact, we just announced that we'll have a new version of the browser so we're innovating very rapidly there and its our commitment to have the best..."

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USA Today: Gates on Linux(Jun 30, 2003)


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  Talkback(s) Name  and Date
GATES: I think the thing we see is that  ...   this is just BS   
Xunil Ung
Feb 18, 2005, 02:38:32
 
Gee-umpin-yiminy, what a load of vomitou ...   what a suckup puff piece   
alice sysadmin
Feb 18, 2005, 05:03:06
 
> .> Nothing beats a real Mountain Bike  ...   Re: this is just BS   
Foobarius Frobinium
Feb 18, 2005, 05:08:08
 
I am taking a pupil of mine to the World ...   World Cadet Championships   
Colin Walls
Feb 18, 2005, 07:21:10
 
GATES: We're responsible for the cre ...   Yea right..   
Mike R.
Feb 18, 2005, 10:18:29
 
In years gone by, I thought it was IBM t ...   Wasn't it IBM who developed the PC?   
Roni M. Oliva
Feb 18, 2005, 13:31:34
 
> Nothing beats a real Mountain Bike Rid ...   OT: Fitness   
Eric Powell
Feb 18, 2005, 13:52:43
 
GATES: "And in fact, we do a lot of work ...   BS   
saber
Feb 18, 2005, 14:47:24
 
Hmm... I was around in 1984... I seem to ...   1984   
Peter Parker
Feb 18, 2005, 14:51:07
 
Things have got to be bad for M$ if they ...   Dancing Puppets   
da
Feb 18, 2005, 15:14:35
 
GATES: No, I'm not an iPod user. I u ...   quote   
Kiaser Zohsay
Feb 18, 2005, 16:00:26
 
It's just me, or BG sounds more and  ...   Doesn't he sound weird?   
Carlos Cesar
Feb 18, 2005, 16:41:52
 
GATES: [...] So we have that lesson and  ...   Paid for breakthroughs   
Mike H.
Feb 18, 2005, 17:08:39
 
GATES: [...] There's a new technolog ...   Sender ID not a standard   
I.J.
Feb 18, 2005, 17:15:03
 
> In years gone by, I thought it was IBM ...   Re: Wasn't it IBM who developed the PC?   
Komb'
Feb 18, 2005, 17:26:50
 
With the exception of him giving his mon ...   With the exception of him giving his money away...   
JaseP
Feb 18, 2005, 18:15:59
 
> In years gone by, I thought it was IBM ...   Re: Wasn't it IBM who developed the PC?   
Kevin Hudson
Feb 18, 2005, 19:16:11
 
> > In years gone by, I thought it was I ...   Re: Re: Wasn't it IBM who developed the PC?   
Scott Marlowe
Feb 18, 2005, 19:38:41
 
In a way yes and no.  There were a lot o ...   Re: Wasn't it IBM who developed the PC?   
Joe User
Feb 18, 2005, 20:02:38
 
And don't forget the Texas Instrumen ...   Re: Re: Wasn't it IBM who developed the PC?   
Peter McCombs
Feb 18, 2005, 20:53:11
 
> But, none of these were considered Per ...   Re: Re: Wasn't it IBM who developed the PC?   
Ruben
Feb 19, 2005, 07:09:57
 
JENNINGS: I was asking you about whether ...   Gates misunderstood Peter Jennings's question   
Ganesh Prasad
Feb 20, 2005, 13:05:49
 
>It's just me, or BG sounds more and ...   Re: Doesn't he sound weird?   
Alan
Feb 20, 2005, 16:41:47
 
> Actually the Adam, Osbourne and defina ...   Re: Re: Wasn't it IBM who developed the PC?   
Codifex Maximus
Feb 20, 2005, 21:48:08
 
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