BBC Bill Gates Interview

securitas writes "The BBC's Stephen Cole interviews Bill Gates in the first of a two-part interview. In the first half of the interview with the technology show Click Online, Gates discusses his view of the 'digital lifestyle' that Microsoft has been pushing for some time, lately with its Windows Media Center PCs. Sample quote: 'People don't want lots and lots of single purpose devices.... The PC has more software, more competition, more richness than anything else. So making it simple and rich, that means the PC will be the key device.' Streaming media in Real format is also available. [Video: Broadband | Narrowband]"

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Hah

[TheKidWho]

"Streaming media in Real format is also available"

Hah stick it right back at them!

One of these things is not like the other

[bersl2]

"The PC has more software, more competition, more richness than anything else...."

Excuse me, are we sure this is the real Bill Gates?

Re:One of these things is not like the other

[Chemisor]

> The PC has more software, more competition, more richness than anything else

But it does! Except for competition, but I am sure he meant "competition between processes for the CPU".

PC roxx

[News for nerds]

>'People don't want lots and lots of single purpose
>devices.... The PC has more software, more
>competition, more richness than anything else. So
>making it simple and rich, that means the PC will be the key device.'

So we can forget Xbox 2, right.

Re:PC roxx

[Anonymous Coward]

What? You're not excited about paying another 300 dollars for a big ugly black box to play a mediocre peecee shooter in your living-room?

Re:Single purpose devices = stability.

[greechneb]

well, when you have billions of dollars already in on this, of course he's going to say its what people want. Why wouldn't he?

Heck, he probably already has 10 of these in his own house. And if he has a problem, he just yells at the developers to fix it now ;)

Famous quote...

[spiritraveller]

"People don't want lots and lots of single purpose devices...."

In ten years, we will probably be using that quote the way we use the "640k of ram ought to be enough for anyone" quote.

Re:Multi Purpose

[Ithika]

Yeah, my PC only does bit manipulation. How does yours do all those other things?

Re:Single purpose devices = stability.

[Anonymous Coward]

Would that be developers or developers or developers or...

Bill Gates interview resumed

[Ostie]

Interviewer : Are rich are you ?
Bill Gates: Rich
Interviewer : You mean very rich ?
Bill Gates: Yeah, very rich
Interviewer : You mean very very rich ?
Bill Gates: Yeah, very very rich
Interviewer : You mean very very very rich ?
Bill Gates: Yeah, very very very rich
Interviewer : Can you give me some money then ?
Bill Gates : No
Interviewer : Why not ?
Bill Gates : Because I want your money

Some new quotes

[CrackedButter]

Ballmer: Developers, Developers, Developers.
Gates: Richness, Richness, Richness.
Gates: We founded the PC industry based on having standards, based on increasing our R&D every year.
Me: Bullshit, Bullshit, Bullshit.

Gates says security is priority

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