Posts Tagged ‘ Bill Gates ’

CES: Gates Offers Take On Digital Decade; Save Us Steve Jobs!

Jan 7th, 2008 | By James Lewin | Category: Commentary, General

At the 2008 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES), Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates used his last keynote to offer his take on the future, talk about the first “digital decade” and what the future offers. He was joined by Robbie Bach, President of Microsoft’s Entertainment & Devices Division, who helped Gates demo his mad Guitar Hero [...]



Gates: Internet TV Will Revolutionize Television In 5 Years

Jan 29th, 2007 | By James Lewin | Category: Citizen Media, Digital Video Downloads, General, Streaming Video, Video, Video Podcasts, Vlogs

The Internet will revolutionize television within five years, due to an explosion of online video content and the merging of PCs and TV sets, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates said on Saturday.
“I’m stunned how people aren’t seeing that with TV, in five years from now, people will laugh at what we’ve had,” Gates told business leaders [...]



Bill Gates On Using Bloggers To Pwn The Media

Dec 16th, 2006 | By James Lewin | Category: Citizen Media, Commentary

Microsoft invited a small group of influential bloggers to their Redmond campus Thursday for an hour long one-on-one with Bill Gates, as part of Microsoft’s Mix n’ Mash ‘07 event.
In doing so, Gates demonstrated how to use bloggers to pwn the media:

Invite a group of influential bloggers
Pay their expenses
Give them free stuff
Answer some softball questions
Work [...]