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Steve Jobs On Bill Gates: What The Apple CEO REALLY Thinks Of Microsoft’s Founder

Adrian — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 03:09:45 +0000

Steve Jobs and Bill Gates, two titans of tech, have been friends, competitors, and colleagues. They’ve even gone on double-dates.

So what does Steve Jobs have to say about Microsoft’s founder? We went looking, and have compiled a list of Steve Jobs’ best quotes about Bill Gates.

The claws come out as Jobs challenges Gates’s creativity and criticizes aspects of Microsoft’s business. But the Apple CEO also softens up, likens their relationship to matrimony, and speaks fondly of the legacy Gates will leave. There’s even a cute video from a 1983 Apple event when Gates “woos” Jobs during a company-sponsored dating game.

Back in 1983, Apple hosted a dating-style game show that featured Steve Jobs as the lucky bachelor. The panel of ‘suitors’ consists of the day’s industry leaders. Though Bill Gates, Suitor #3, appears to have Jobs’s affections, Jobs surprises the panel and chooses all three.

Full Story: Huffington Post

Bill Gates: Pen-Based Tablets Will Beat the iPad, At Least With Students

Adrian — Wed, 05 May 2010 02:59:32 +0000

Apple’s iPad might have sold one million units in just a month, but that’s not impressing Microsoft founder Bill Gates, who thinks that the iPad’s touch-only input approach will ultimately lose to pen-based tablets… at least with students:

“Microsoft has a lot of different tablet projects that we’re pursuing. We think that work with the pen that Microsoft pioneered will become a mainstream for students. It can give you a device that you can not only read, but also create documents at the same time.

While I agree there’s a place for styluses with tablet computers (and, in fact, wish Apple would officially release a pressure-sensitive one for use with the iPad), Jobs is ultimately right: if uses have to reach for a stylus then a touchscreen device is a failure. I don’t think that changes whether you’re a casual user or a student.

Full Story: Cult of Mac

Bill Gates and Friends Make Case for Energy R&D

Adrian — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 02:34:43 +0000

Bill Gates and a host of other corporate heavy hitters have founded a new organization to push for more research and development into clean energy technology.

Gates and former DuPont CEO Charles Holliday heralded the launch of the American Energy Innovation Council with an unusually clear and concise argument for increased government support for green tech R&D.

“Despite talk about the need for ’21st century’ energy sources, federal spending on clean energy research is also relatively small. The U.S. government annually spends less than $3 billion — compared with roughly $30 billion annually on health research and $80 billion on defense research and development,” they argued in The Washington Post.

Full Story: Wired