What is the similarities between Bill Gates and Steve Jobs?
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Just look 'Pirates of Silicon Valey' :)
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it's bill gates. this source is from Nov 6, 05.
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Yes - until Pixar was sold recently, Steve Jobs was head of both that and Apple.  In the non-profit world, it's not uncommon for the same person to be head of two organizations, particularly if they're closely affiliated.
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bill gates, microsoft
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Bill Gates, without a doubt
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No, Bill gates is the richest person.
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Bill Gates is still the chairman of Microsoft. He still is also the chief software architect of Microsoft. He gave up his position as the CEO (Chief Executive Officer) to Steve Ballmer.\n\nNote: There may be at least 400 MDs in Microsoft since in US MD is the head of a division - mostly reporting to a VP who reports to an SVP. The head of the organization is the CEO.
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1. William H. Gates III\n\nAge: 43\nNationality: American\nMartial Status: Married\nChildren: 2\nEducation: Harvard dropout\nWorth: $90 Billion\n\nWe should all just face the fact that Bill Gates will one day rule the world. By the time Windows 2015 comes out, all will fear Bill's wrath. But you gotta admit that it doesn't look like it went to his head; the richest human on Earth, and he has the dorkiest haircut money could buy.\n\nThe son of a lawyer father and teacher mother, Gates dropped out of preschool to devote all of his time to inventing Microsoft with chum Paul Allen, then just 3 years old. After drooling all over the HVAC tubes, Bill decided to go back to school for a few more years, eventually dropping out of Harvard University to work on Microsoft.\n\nThe rest, as they all too frequently say, is history. Microsoft became this huge international corporate behemoth, and is currently fighting off anti-trust investigations and accusations that it holds a monopoly. When Bill rules the world, he's going to come down and fire those federal court judges with extreme prejudice. They'll never work on his planet again!\n\nGates relinquished his role as President of Microsoft in 1998, and as CEO on January 13, 2000; both posts are now held by Steve Ballmer. However, Bill remains Chairman and "chief software architect" of the company, as well as its largest shareholder. So they still let him come to board meetings.\n\nMr. Bill once gave $17 Billion to charity, which makes Ted Turner's paltry offering of $1 billion to the UN look like chump change. He's also written a couple of books and is heavily invested in biotechnology and cellular and satellite technology. Investors, call your brokers.\n\nSo to get onto our list of the Seven Habits of Highly Effective Billionaires, you must: join Microsoft (preferably early on), be an oil baron, drop out of college, get married, have 3.1 kids, inherit lots of money, and bleed your people dry.
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bill gates\nowner of microsoft
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BANGALORE, India - When Microsoft Corp. chairman    Bill Gates begins a four-day visit to India on Tuesday (12-06-2005), he'll see a country moving increasingly toward open source operating systems — the chief rival to his company's Windows software. \n\nADVERTISEMENT\n \nThe head of Microsoft's India division, Ravi Venkatesan, said Gates plans to focus "on realizing India's potential" during his visit.\n\nMicrosoft has long viewed India, a country of 1 billion people with a fast growing economy, as a potentially huge market, and this will be Gates' fourth visit. He'll meet with senior Indian officials, business leaders and programmers and detail Microsoft's long-announced plans to invest $400 million in India in the coming years.\n\nGates is an icon to legions of programmers in India, and Indian leaders and business moguls line up to shake hands with him when he visits.
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i thought  it was bill  gates
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William (Bill) H. Gates is chairman of Microsoft Corporation, the worldwide leader in software, services and solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential. Microsoft had revenues of US$39.79 billion for the fiscal year ending June 2005, and employs more than 61,000 people in 102 countries and regions.\n\nOn June 15, 2006, Microsoft announced that effective July 2008 Gates will transition out of a day-to-day role in the company to spend more time on his global health and education work at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. After July 2008 Gates will continue to serve as Microsoft’s chairman and an advisor on key development projects. The two-year transition process is to ensure that there is a smooth and orderly transfer of Gates’ daily responsibilities. Effective June 2006, Ray Ozzie has assumed Gates’ previous title as chief software architect and is working side by side with Gates on all technical architecture and product oversight responsibilities at Microsoft. Craig Mundie has assumed the new title of chief research and strategy officer at Microsoft and is working closely with Gates to assume his responsibility for the company’s research and incubation efforts.\n\nBorn on Oct. 28, 1955, Gates grew up in Seattle with his two sisters. Their father, William H. Gates II, is a Seattle attorney. Their late mother, Mary Gates, was a schoolteacher, University of Washington regent, and chairwoman of United Way International. \n\nGates attended public elementary school and the private Lakeside School. There, he discovered his interest in software and began programming computers at age 13. \n\nIn 1973, Gates entered Harvard University as a freshman, where he lived down the hall from Steve Ballmer, now Microsoft's chief executive officer. While at Harvard, Gates developed a version of the programming language BASIC for the first microcomputer - the MITS Altair. \n\nIn his junior year, Gates left Harvard to devote his energies to Microsoft, a company he had begun in 1975 with his childhood friend Paul Allen. Guided by a belief that the computer would be a valuable tool on every office desktop and in every home, they began developing software for personal computers. Gates' foresight and his vision for personal computing have been central to the success of Microsoft and the software industry.\n\nUnder Gates' leadership, Microsoft's mission has been to continually advance and improve software technology, and to make it easier, more cost-effective and more enjoyable for people to use computers. The company is committed to a long-term view, reflected in its investment of approximately $6.2 billion on research and development in the 2005 fiscal year. \n\nIn 1999, Gates wrote Business @ the Speed of Thought, a book that shows how computer technology can solve business problems in fundamentally new ways. The book was published in 25 languages and is available in more than 60 countries. Business @ the Speed of Thought has received wide critical acclaim, and was listed on the best-seller lists of the New York Times, USA Today, the Wall Street Journal and Amazon.com. Gates' previous book, The Road Ahead, published in 1995, held the No. 1 spot on the New York Times' bestseller list for seven weeks. \n\n\nTop row: Steve Wood (left), Bob Wallace, Jim Lane. Middle row: Bob O'Rear, Bob Greenberg, Marc McDonald, Gordon Letwin. Bottom row: Bill Gates, Andrea Lewis, Marla Wood, Paul Allen. December 7, 1978. \nGates has donated the proceeds of both books to non-profit organizations that support the use of technology in education and skills development. \n\nIn addition to his love of computers and software, Gates founded Corbis, which is developing one of the world's largest resources of visual information - a comprehensive digital archive of art and photography from public and private collections around the globe. He is also a member of the board of directors of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., wh
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I LOVE APPLE and I detest Bill Gates and get annoyed when anyone calls him a "visionary". BUT, he did NOT "steal". Somewhere in the past some stupid Apple lawyer apparently gave MS the rights to use the graphic user interface. AND, in the sense of origins, even Apple user interface came from XEROX' PARC. Microsoft DOES have terrible and anti-competitive business practices and attitudes but calling them thiefs is not right.\n\nLet's not even go into the fact that the people writing software sell it to get paid for their efforts. Even if someone has a stolen notebook, it does not make it OK for you to steal pens.\n\nNow, let's look at your logic about why stealing is OK from people who write software for Microsoft even IF Bill Gates stole Apple's designs. \n\nI assume you live in the USA. Since it can be argued that the "white man" stole the land from the native American Indians, then your house is most likely built on "stolen" land and so it should be perfectly OK for someone to break into your house and steal everything in there. \n\nImran
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William Henry Gates III (born October 28, 1955 in Seattle, Washington) is the co-founder, chairman, former chief software architect, and former CEO of Microsoft. Forbes magazine's The World's Billionaires list has ranked him as the richest person on earth for the last thirteen consecutive years. According to the Forbes 2006 magazine, Bill Gates's current net worth is approximately $53 billion. When family wealth is considered, his family ranks second behind the Walton family.[3][4]\n\nGates is one of the best-known entrepreneurs of the personal computer revolution. He is widely respected for his foresight and ambition.[5][6] He is also frequently criticized as having built Microsoft through unfair or unlawful business practices. Since amassing his fortune, Gates has pursued a number of philanthropic endeavors, donating large amounts of money to various charitable organizations and scientific research programs through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, founded in 2000. On June 16, 2006, Bill Gates announced that he would move to a part-time role with Microsoft (leaving day-to-day operations management) in 2008 to begin a career in philanthropy, but will remain as chairman; the announcement coincided with decisions by billionaire Warren Buffett to double the Gates Foundation, matching contributions $1.5 billion in stock per year for 20 years.
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as always, bill gates
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This is actually a fascinating question, so I'm going to give a long answer.  The short answer is "Nothing.  Nothing is similar."  Here's the long asnwer:\n\nTo the average user, it seems like there are a lot of similarities: \n\nthey both have memory, \nthey both take in information and put out information, \nthey both need sources of power\nThey both "think," sort of\n\nBut really, these are only similarities on the surface.  Although both you and your computer have memory, there are vast differences in how memory works, to the point where using the same word for the two types of memory is misleading.  While both you and the computer "think," how you do so is vastly different.  You work in patterns, the computer works in digital representations, which is more precise but far less efficient.\n\nComputers are phenominally fast calculators, but that's all.  They can add, subtract, multiply, divide, and move information around.  And nothing else.  I'm a programmer, trust me on this.  Everything they do is based on those basic operations.  Playing a video game is just basic math done incredibly fast.  Displaying an e-mail is just basic math on memory addresses and moving a block of numbers (representing the letters) from one location to another, where it can be turned into pixels (complicated math, but math none the less) and moving the results to specific memory ports where the electronic adapter turns the numbers into colors on the screen.  Computers seem "smart" because they're wickedly fast at processing numbers.\n\nYou, on the other hand, do poorly at numbers.  (And by 'you', of course, I mean humans.  But you knew that).  The fastest human savants calculate thousands of times slower than the computer in your microwave oven.  \n\nYou have advantages, though.  Your brain is a phenominal pattern matcher.  Your pattern matching abilities exceed anything any computer can achieve.  For example, if I scrawl the word "Howdy there!" on a piece of paper and hand it to you, you'd instantly know what it said, even if I was a wee bit sloppy with the letters or gave it to you upside-down.  The letters (and even the words) are patterns you've seen before and can immediately interpret them.  A computer would have to analyze it pixel-by-pixel and MIGHT be able to interpret the letters eventually.  But in all probability, the computer is going to have trouble figuring out where the lines start and stop, and which line goes with which line in the text.  Character recognition is a tricky thing for a computer... and if you give it the text upside-down it'll never figure it out.  \n\nEven a six-month-old baby is better at recognizing different faces than the best computer program running on the fastest computer that Homeland Security has.  And trust, me, they're working on improving that so they can recognize bad guys from security cameras.  \n\nNow we get back to memory and how vastly different they are.  A week from now, you'll remember that the paper said "howdy there!" and may or may not remember vaguely whether the handwriting was neat or sloppy.  This is because your memory stores the pattern.  The computer, however, could give an exact reproduction.\n\nStudies have been done with what types of things people remember.  When flashed briefly with an image of a cluttered desk, for example, and then asked to write down what was on the desk, people tend to remember the things that are out of place (a shoe, a tennis ball) and not remember things that were expected there (a stapler, a cofee mug).  This is because that powerful pattern matcher in your head evaluates the pattern (an office desk) and notes anything that doesn't match.  Your memory doesn't need to store typical desk items as much as it does exceptions.  It's very efficient that way.  You filter out the "ordinary" and spend almost no time thinking about the
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Bill Gates. That about says it all.