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December 1998
November 1998
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Comdex98 Users Group - Las Vegas, Nevada
"As we look at the impact of the PC and what it's done to date, we find that we are nowhere near achieving the PC’s true potential."
November 16, 1998
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Comdex98 Keynote - Las Vegas, Nevada
"PCs are going beyond the desktop and becoming personal companions, giving people vast new capabilities."
November 15, 1998
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1998 Conference on Information Technology - Redmond, Washington
"The personal computer has emerged not just as a tool of the organization, but a tool of the individual. By connecting those machines together, we're creating a really incredible phenomena of a tool that empowers people to learn in very new ways."
November 3, 1998
October 1998
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Indiana University Lecture Series - Bloomington, Indiana
"In no way has the computer had even 10 percent of the impact that I expect in the years ahead. In the next 10 years, we'll see more change than we've seen in the last 25. So, it's a very exciting time."
October 1998
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Professional Developers Conference Keynote - Denver, Colorado
"I'm calling my remarks today, "Building Windows-based Applications for the Internet Age," because I think for all of us that's something where we're going to see incredible demand, really even beyond what the industry has seen so far."
October 12, 1998
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NCR Partners Conference Keynote - San Diego, California
"It is now possible within your company or to your customers to have all the information there in a rich, electronic form. Paper invoices, paper billing, paper forms, these things are going to go away. And within only a few years, they'll be more the exception than the rule."
October 7, 1998
July 1998
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Financial Analysts Meeting - Seattle, Washington
"...Most important was our business model, to be very specialized, not a services company, not a systems company, not even a vertical applications company, strictly a software platform company working with all the different hardware companies who came in with PC-type equipment."
July 23, 1998
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Synergy '98 Europe - Redmond, Washington
"This vision is really about empowering workers, giving them all the information about what's going on so they can do a lot more than they've done in the past."
July 8, 1998
June 1998
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Windows '98 Launch - San Francisco, California
"The PC and the Internet will become as fundamental tomorrow as the automobile is today."
June 25, 1998
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Windows 98 Announcement in Japan
"We're very proud of the impact that Windows 95 had on the PC market."
June 17, 1998
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Tech ED '98 - Redmond, Washington
"The Moore's law rate of exponential improvement is continuing and there's no end in sight."
June 4, 1998
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SIGMOD '98 - Seattle, Washington
"In the information age, this ability to process information, to let people have access to the things they care about, it is the most exciting problem of all."
June 2, 1998
May 1998
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Microsoft's Second Annual CEO Summit - Seattle, Washington
More than 120 CEOs and other corporate executives from Fortune 1,000 companies all over the world came to Seattle (May 27-29, 1998) for Microsoft's second annual CEO Summit meeting, hosted by Microsoft Chairman and CEO Bill Gates.
May 28, 1998
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PC Industry Leaders Unite to Support Windows 98 and Innovation for Consumers - New York, New York
...The information technology industry gathered in New York today to call attention to the reasons why releasing Microsoft Windows 98 on schedule is so important to consumers and businesses.
May 5, 1998
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NCTA '98 - Atlanta, Georgia
"By taking the latest in hardware and software technology, the cable industry will lead the way to providing information age services in all the homes throughout the world."
May 4, 1998
April 1998
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CA World '98 - New Orleans, LA
"...There was the belief that the hardware power would grow so rapidly that the key limiting factor would be the availability of a software platform. And it's been amazing to see how this exponential improvement has proceeded year by year."
April 27, 1998
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BaanWorld '98 - Denver, Colorado
"I think the companies that do well in the information age will be the ones that think about the digital nervous system, and they think about the products from our companies as simply building blocks that allow you to get to the best digital nervous system."
April 21, 1998
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Windows World - Chicago, Illinois
"Windows creates independence between the hardware changes and the software changes, and so you have total choice on the hardware side and total choice on the software side."
April 20, 1998
March 1998
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Enterprise Solutions Conference - Florida
"One of the areas that's the greatest challenge in these technology advances is making sure that, as we connect to the Internet, we have low-cost, high-speed connections."
March 30, 1998
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Valencia Community College - Orlando, Florida
"We recognize that at least 80 percent of the jobs in today's market place require computer literacy."
March 26, 1998
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WinHec '98 - Orlando, Florida
"We thought of the Auto PC as kind of a specialized form factor and one that would take a while to capture people's imaginations..."
March 26, 1998
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World Economic Forum - Melbourne, Australia
"The winners will be the ones who restructure the way that information moves inside their company."
March 16, 1998
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Enterprise Customer Unit Conference - Sydney, Australia
"The building blocks are very simple. It's the PC connected up to the Internet."
March 16, 1998
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NACHA Payments 98 Conference - Seattle, Washington
"Our framework for this is what I call the Web lifestyle. This is the idea that over the next decade most adults will be using the Web many times a day, without even thinking about it."
March 9, 1998
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Bill Gates and Charlie Rose - New York, New York
Q&A with Bill Gates and Charlie Rose.
March 4, 1998
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75th Anniversary TIME Salute - Washington, D.C.
"The 20th Century has been the American Century in large part because of great inventors like the Wright brothers. May we follow their flight paths and blaze our own."
March 3, 1998
February 1998
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Accessibility Day - Redmond, Washington
"Our vision when we started the company was a computer on every desk and in every home. And in this setting, I think the word to emphasize there is 'every'."
February 19, 1998
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Empowerment 2001 - Seattle, Washington
"Historically, when people talked about computer development projects, they talked about two or three or four years, and there would be cost overruns of 40 and 50 percent."
February 9, 1998
January 1998
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Digital and Microsoft Announce Expanded Alliance to Accelerate the Adoption of Windows NT Across the Enterprise - San Francisco, California
Bill Gates and Digital CEO and Chairman Robert Palmer outlined Digital’s capabilities as a worldwide prime integrator for Windows NT.
January 28,1998
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NationsBanc Montgomery Securities Conference - San Francisco, California
"The PC industry is the fastest-moving industry on earth. It's delivering better products at lower prices with more capabilities."
January 27,1998
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A Conversation with Bill Gates Hosted by the Tech Museum - San Jose, California
"America has a lot to be proud of with this industry. This area (Silicon Valley) has benefited immensely."
January 27, 1998
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Stanford University - Palo Alto, California
"We come into work every day knowing that we can destroy the company...and that we better keep our wits about us, make the long-term investments in research that are going to make a big difference and really drive things forward."
January 27, 1998
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Consumer Electronics Show (CES) - Las Vegas, Nevada
"People want information everywhere they go. They want it on a small device."
January 10, 1998
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