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“We've really achieved the ideal of what I wanted Microsoft to become.”

-Bill Gates, June 2008

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December 1999

  • Streaming Media West '99  transcript
    "We're taking video and audio and combining it with the richness of the Internet, so that it's easy to find things and it's easy to create whole new content experiences that draw on that interactivity."
    December 7, 1999

November 1999

  • COMDEX/Fall '99  transcript
    "Tonight I want to share how the advances in the PC, the advances in the Internet, and the advances in software are going to create an amazing new tool that brings together all the good things we think about in a new world of communication."
    November 14, 1999

October 1999

  • New York Institute of Technology  transcript
    "I can say with great confidence that the Internet is going to change education as fundamentally as it changed when we had printed books."
    October 28, 1999
  • Telecom '99  transcript
    "What we have to do is work with telecommunications providers so all your information -- business databases, files, contacts -- all of it shows up automatically as soon as you authenticate who you are, then your personalized desktop, that shows you the part of the Web or your mailbox that you care about, that immediately comes up on the screen, including adapting to the screen size of the device that you're looking at."
    October 12, 1999
  • Smartcard '99 Business Development Conference  transcript
    "What we're trying to do is get all the pieces to work together, making it easy for Web sites to connect up to smart cards, making it easy for Windows login, making it easy for applications. Our efforts go way beyond just what we actually stick onto the card itself."
    October 8, 1999

September 1999

  • Windows on Healthcare V  transcript
    "The PC is going to look very different than it does today. It will be that tablet, it will be the phone that you talk to, it will be your information stored out there on the Web and easy to access. It's a much broader view of what this platform looks like."
    September 15, 1999
  • Developer Days '99  transcript
    "And so, in this new age of Internet applications, we're taking all of our developer pieces, and advancing them to make it as easy as possible to build these applications."
    September 15, 1999

July 1999

  • Fusion '99  transcript
    "In all of our activities, we take a long-term view, whether it's R&D development on things like speech recognition, building a very efficient software development environment or nurturing the partnerships and the mutual relationships we have with customers."
    July 23, 1999

June 1999

  • Workstation Leadership Forum '99  transcript
    "The term I'm using today is 'workstations without limits,' without any limits for the kind of information you can get, no limits for performance you get. This is desktop supercomputing."
    June 30, 1999
  • Statement before the Joint Economic Committee  transcript
    "Today's students have access to powerful computers and a sea of information through the Internet that I could only dream of when I was a teenager."
    June 15, 1999

May 1999

  • 1999 CEO Summit  transcript
    "The information age is opening up new possibilities for all of us, for our children and for the entire nation."
    May 19, 1999

April 1999

  • Institute of Directors  transcript
    "The importance of using technology in the right way has never been more clear."
    April 28, 1999
  • Spring Comdex/Windows World  transcript
    "You'll be able to send mail to anyone in the organization independent of what the hierarchy looks like, and a lot of information will flow, including tracking what's going on with every customer."
    April 19, 1999
  • Government Leaders Conference  transcript
    "In virtually every country, whether it's a developing country or a developed country, politicians are talking about the kind of policies that they will create to empower the citizenry, deal with global competitiveness, and mitigate any issues that [the Internet] will provide."
    April 15, 1999
  • Innovate '99  transcript
    "We still want to preserve everything that's great about the PC, the flexibility to have applications, rich peripherals, and portability, yet give people the best of both worlds - central management as well as PC capabilities."
    April 14, 1999
  • MIT LCS Laboratory Anniversary  transcript
    "Today we're taking on a whole new class of software problems because of the Internet, because of its role as the most revolutionary communications device of all time."
    April 13, 1999

March 1999

  • Synergy '99  transcript
    "The most important class of partner for us, by far, is people like yourselves who build software on our platform."
    March 30, 1999
  • London Business School  transcript
    "Our great hope here is that there is a generation growing up where using a computer is second nature. Where browsing the Internet and using electronic mail is not some foreign thing. They will be the ones that lead the charge here."
    March 26, 1999
  • Georgetown University  transcript
    "I believe the rules of how a business works are going to be so different that only the companies that seize the opportunity to do things a new way will be the ones that are successful in the years ahead."
    March 24, 1999
  • Columbia/NYU Business School - New York, New York  transcript
    "The ability to match buyers and sellers will be completely different because of the PC and because of the Internet."
    March 24, 1999
  • Digital Nervous System - Enterprise Perspective - New York, New York  transcript
    "The bottom line is that business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50."
    March 24, 1999
  • Schroders' Big Picture - New York, New York  transcript
    "I think I've always admired scientists, people like Richard Feynman or scientists who made these incredible advances."
    March 24, 1999
  • Microsoft Enterprise Solutions Conference - Miami, Florida  transcript
    "We work on a very leveraged basis training developers on the latest technologies. In Latin America, we trained over 55,000 developers and IT administrators in the last 12 months."
    March 23, 1999
  • Internet Explorer 5 Launch - Redmond, Washington  transcript
    "We want everybody who works on the Internet to think of Internet Explorer technologies as a platform that they can build on, a platform that they can take advantage of."
    March 18, 1999
  • Nortel Networks Announcement - San Jose, California  transcript
    "This is a product that not only provides messaging and PBX capability, but has the programming richness, because it uses the Windows platform that allows there to be lots of third-party applications."
    March 15, 1999
  • Venus Project Announcement - Shenzhen, China  transcript
    "...We have been studying what kind of special products can we produce to grow the usage computers and the Internet."
    March 11, 1999
  • Asia Enterprise Summit - Hong Kong, China  transcript
    "I think there are more opportunities now to do business in a better way today than there have ever been."
    March 9, 1999
  • Commerce Solutions Briefing - San Francisco, California  transcript
    "E-commerce is a very exciting area. It's hard to pick up a magazine or a newspaper nowadays without reading about some milestone in electronic commerce."
    March 4, 1999

February 1999

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