Bill Gates Speech Archive - 1998


Bill and Melinda Gates Children's Vaccine Program - New York, New York

December 2, 1998
"Our program has a simple goal: make vaccines you and I take for granted available to children regardless of where they live."

Manhattan Institute - New York, New York

December 2, 1998
"Being able to create the ultimate information device, being able to understand the genome and the world's diseases, all of those are within our grasp within the next two decades."

Comdex98 Users Group - Las Vegas, Nevada

November 16, 1998
"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."

Comdex98 Keynote - Las Vegas, Nevada

November 15, 1998
"PCs are going beyond the desktop and becoming personal companions, giving people vast new capabilities."

1998 Conference on Information Technology - Redmond, Washington

November 3, 1998
"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."

Indiana University Lecture Series - Bloomington, Indiana

October 1998
"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."

Professional Developers Conference Keynote - Denver, Colorado

October 12, 1998
"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."

NCR Partners Conference Keynote - San Diego, California

October 7, 1998
"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."

Financial Analysts Meeting - Seattle, Washington

July 23, 1998
"...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."

Synergy '98 Europe - Redmond, Washington

July 8, 1998
"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."

Windows '98 Launch - San Francisco, California

June 25, 1998
"The PC and the Internet will become as fundamental tomorrow as the automobile is today."

Windows 98 Announcement in Japan

June 17, 1998
"We're very proud of the impact that Windows 95 had on the PC market."

Tech ED '98 - Redmond, Washington

June 4, 1998
"The Moore's law rate of exponential improvement is continuing and there's no end in sight."

SIGMOD '98 - Seattle, Washington

June 2, 1998
" 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."

Microsoft's Second Annual CEO Summit - Seattle, Washington

May 28, 1998
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.

PC Industry Leaders Unite to Support Windows 98 and Innovation for Consumers - New York, New York

May 5, 1998
...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.

NCTA '98 - Atlanta, Georgia

May 4, 1998
"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."

CA World '98 - New Orleans, LA

April 27, 1998
"...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."

BaanWorld '98 - Denver, Colorado

April 21, 1998
"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."

Windows World - Chicago, Illinois

April 20, 1998
"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."

Enterprise Solutions Conference - Florida

March 30, 1998
"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."

Valencia Community College - Orlando, Florida

March 26, 1998
"We recognize that at least 80 percent of the jobs in today's market place require computer literacy."

WinHec '98 - Orlando, Florida

March 26, 1998
"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..."

World Economic Forum - Melbourne, Australia

March 16, 1998
"The winners will be the ones who restructure the way that information moves inside their company."

Enterprise Customer Unit Conference - Sydney, Australia

March 16, 1998
"The building blocks are very simple. It's the PC connected up to the Internet."

NACHA Payments 98 Conference - Seattle, Washington

March 9, 1998
"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."

Bill Gates and Charlie Rose - New York, New York

March 4, 1998
Q&A with Bill Gates and Charlie Rose.

75th Anniversary TIME Salute - Washington, D.C.

March 3, 1998
"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."

Accessibility Day - Redmond, Washington

February 19, 1998
"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'."

Empowerment 2001 - Seattle, Washington

February 9, 1998
"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."

Digital and Microsoft Announce Expanded Alliance to Accelerate the Adoption of Windows NT Across the Enterprise - San Francisco, California

January 28,1998
Bill Gates and Digital CEO and Chairman Robert Palmer outlined Digital’s capabilities as a worldwide prime integrator for Windows NT.

NationsBanc Montgomery Securities Conference - San Francisco, California

January 27,1998
"The PC industry is the fastest-moving industry on earth. It's delivering better products at lower prices with more capabilities."

A Conversation with Bill Gates Hosted by the Tech Museum - San Jose, California

January 27, 1998
"America has a lot to be proud of with this industry. This area (Silicon Valley) has benefited immensely."

Stanford University - Palo Alto, California

January 27, 1998
"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."

Consumer Electronics Show (CES) - Las Vegas, Nevada

January 10, 1998
"People want information everywhere they go. They want it on a small device."

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