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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 2000

  • SafeNet 2000 Summit  transcript
    One of the big issues is that as you go to these different Web sites, you engage in buying behavior, you ought to be able to know what the policy of that Web site is; you know, exactly what are they saying that they do with the information.
    Dec 7, 2000

November 2000

  • COMDEX/Fall 2000  transcript
    "We're at a very key transition point. People look back and say that the browsing era was fantastic, a lot came out of it. But they'll recognize we're moving into this new era, an era with lots of different devices, but a new model for how these devices work together, a software-to-software model built around XML."
    Nov. 12, 2000 - Las Vegas, Nev.

October 2000

  • Digital Dividends Conference  transcript
    There's a very optimistic premise that I have, which is, if you give people tools, their natural ability, their curiosity, will develop it in ways that will surprise you very much beyond what you might have expected.
    Oct. 18, 2000 - Las Vegas, Nev.
  • Intel eXCHANGE e-Business Conference  transcript
    There's a lot of exciting things still happening on the desktop. The PC is not the ultimate communications tool that it will become. There are areas of creativity that the PC is just now moving into
    Oct. 12, 2000 - San Francisco, Calif.

September 2000

  • Malaysia Multimedia University  transcript
    We're really just finally getting to the original dream of Microsoft, which is this tool that can help you with everything that you do.
    Sept. 13, 2000 - Malaysia
  • Sydney Conference Unit  transcript
    Through the Microsoft .NET strategy we'll be bringing a set of tools and a software platform that will allow the developers and the IT pros, you folks who are represented here today, to transform the web and every other aspect of computing.
    Sept. 11, 2000 - Sydney, Australia
  • 20/20 Vision -- A future for small business  transcript
    An increase in employment and a lack of inflation over these last five or six years have finally forced economists to admit that there's something coming in that's actually changing the rules of the game, changing those typical trade-offs, and that change is the presence of technology. Sept. 11, 2000 - Sydney, Australia
  • Sydney Media Centre  transcript
    Four or five years from now you will wonder when somebody called up to get technical support, how they only used the phone to try and describe what was going on with their PC.
    Sept. 11, 2000 - Sydney, Australia

July 2000

  • Professional Developers Conference  transcript
    Microsoft's basic approach -- building a platform and then getting lots of innovative developers to go out and really create solutions around it -- that strategy has been the same since the beginning of time, and now it's more important than ever.
    July 12, 2000 - Orlando, Fla.

June 2000

  • Forum 2000  transcript
    You could say it's a bet-the-company thing. We are putting our resources behind .NET because we believe in this and so our entire strategy is defined around this platform.
    June 22, 2000 - Redmond, Wash.
  • Washington2Washington  transcript
    I think all students start off with incredible ability and curiosity, and if they're given the opportunity to pursue that, if they're given a chance to see the neat things about the world in terms that they can appreciate and enjoy, their abilities will be reinforced and we'll achieve so much more potential out of the great students we have.
    June 6, 2000 - Washington, D.C.
  • Tech Ed 2000  transcript
    What I want to share with you this morning is how software is the key ingredient that's going to change the Internet from the way we know it today to something dramatically more powerful.
    June 5, 2000 - Orlando, Fla.

May 2000

  • CEO Summit 2000  transcript
    My goal in kicking this off is to talk about how technology is not standing still, and how that will really have a profound effect on how we view this as a revolutionary change agent in business and communication.
    May 24, 2000 - Redmond, Wash.
  • Networld + Interop 2000  transcript
    We're on the verge of moving beyond into a phase where we can really think of the Internet as a platform.
    May 9, 2000 - Las Vegas, Nev.

April 2000

  • WinHEC 2000  transcript
    There's an amazing amount of additional choice with end to end solutions to scale the system needs of what you want to build for your customers with Windows and all kinds of hardware, ranging from tiny little appliances, to Web blades like Compaq Photon, all the way up the four-way Compaq Blazer platform, and eight-way ProLiant 8500.
    April 25, 2000 - New Orleans
  • Government Leaders' Conference  transcript
    Today we face the challenge of shaping government around a digital environment. National boundaries are, in some ways, less of a block to things than they used to be. So the need for cooperation between governments is very, very important.
    April 4, 2000 - Seattle, Wash.

March 2000

  • Enterprise Solutions Conference  transcript
    There is no doubt that every country in Latin America is awake to the opportunity of the Internet.
    March 21, 2000 - Miami, Fla.
  • Game Developers Conference  transcript
    We think people are going to take X-Box in directions that we don't even expect. We'd seen that with every new platform we've ever come out with, and this one I would say it's more true than any. So there's room to grow in some unbelievable ways.
    March 10, 2000 - San Jose, Calif.
  • Sensory Access Foundation  transcript
    There's a flavor of this digital divide, though, that has gotten a lot less visibility, and that's the one that we're gathered today to think about and I think most of us here to rededicate ourselves to helping with this digital divide, and that's to make sure that people with disabilities can be empowered through technology.
    March 10, 2000 - San Jose, Calif.

February 2000

  • CTIA WIRELESS 2000  transcript
    There's no doubt this is an industry sitting on the verge of unbelievable opportunity, not just connection the full screen PC devices, but making that seamless with the other devices, defining new types of communication, the location-based services, the e-everything from photos to books to music, making sure that there's a way to reach into the secure information.
    Feb. 28, 2000 - New Orleans
  • Windows 2000 Conference & Expo  transcript
    Taking all the richness of business in the pre-digital world and moving it onto the Internet -- this is the environment that we designed Windows 2000 for.
    Feb. 17, 2000 - San Francisco, Calif.

January 2000

  • CES 2000 International  transcript
    We're going to have conversion where you can get the information and entertainment you care about on all these different devices.
    Jan. 5, 2000 - Las Vegas, Nev.

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