Remember 1995? Yeah, me neither. But to refresh our memories, we’ve got an "In and Out" list from the December 20, 1995 edition of USA Today. This strange artifact (found in the University of California-San Francisco tobacco document archives) gives a peek at how mainstream America was thinking about shifting trends in media, technology and, I guess, Mexican food in the mid-1990s.
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You might say the day is never really done in consumer technology news. Your workday, however, hopefully draws to a close at some point. This is the Daily Roundup on Engadget, a quick peek back at the top headlines for the past 24 hours — all handpicked by the editors here at the site. Click on through the break, and enjoy.
Bill Gates and Steve Jobs are two iconic Silicon Valley men known all around the world for their talents and their success. Microsoft and Apple are both billion dollar empires that have their specific set of products used and loved […]
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Bill Gates has described his final meeting with Steve Jobs, in an emotional interview with 60 Minutes’ Charlie Rose in which he recalled his rival and friend’s “forward looking” attitude. “He and I, in a sense, grew up together” Gates said of his relationship with Jobs, a complex friendship that saw each man engage and respect with each other on a personal level, while at the same time lead companies that at many points in their history were fiercely competitive and even antagonistic.
Asked whether Jobs was maudlin during their final meetings, Gates describes the Apple co-founder as instead upbeat and relatively positive. Jobs “showed me the board he was working on” Gates recalls, a Philippe Starck designed minimalist yacht named Venus which was officially completed late in 2012.
According to Gates, Jobs “talked about how he’s looking forward to being on it, even though we both knew there was a good chance that wouldn’t happen.” The two also discussed how technology was yet to address all of society’s ills, such as education and health.
“We were within a year of the same age, and we were kind of naively optimistic and built big companies. And every fantasy we had about creating products and learning new things– we achieved all of it. And most of it as rivals. But we always retained a certain respect and communication, including even when he was sick” Bill Gates on Steve Jobs
Health is, of course, an area Gates went on to focus his attention on, with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation awarding grants to medical projects across the world. That has been a second life for Gates, after Microsoft, something Jobs himself praised during an AllThingsD appearance.
For Microsoft and Apple fans, however, it’s likely to be Gates’ comments on his relationship with the former Apple CEO that are the most interesting. “We did tablets, lots of tablets, well before Apple did, but they put the pieces together in a way that succeeded” Gates concedes, referring to Apple’s segment-leading iPad, while Jobs’ design and branding insights also come in for praise.
The full Bill Gates interview was shown on 60 Minutes with Charlie Rose, with the full transcript available here. A segment of 60 Minutes Overtime, where Rose reflects on the interview, is shown below.
SOURCE: CBS News
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Last night’s 60 Minutes gave a solid block of screen time to Microsoft founder Bill Gates, with a focus on his efforts to tackle preventable diseases through the Gates Foundation. The show looked at how the Foundation is using the ethos of a technology company to meet humanitarian challenges, such as its recent plumbing-free toilet competition to improve sanitation around the world, and the development of a thermos that can keep 200 vaccines cool for 50 days using a single block of ice. Separately, Gates also spoke about the late Steve Jobs and how the two men effectively “grew up together” as rivals. 60 Minutes interviewer Charlie Rose noted that Gates will “long be remembered” for his philanthropy, whereas Jobs “did not have time to do that.” There are two excerpts from the show after the break, but we can’t guarantee how well they’ll work on mobile devices so you may want to go straight to the source links below.
Via: CNET
Source: 60 Minutes Overtime: Gates on Jobs, 60 Minutes: Bill Gates 2.0
If one compares how many iPads Apple sold with the number of Surface tablets that Microsoft moved in the previous quarter, one might find fault with this statement. However the former CEO and co-founder of Microsoft, Bill Gates, says that iPad users are frustrated with the tablet. He adds that Windows 8 is way ahead in the game as it merges together benefits of a tablet and the benefits of a PC. Does this mean that Gates is implying these users need Surface tablets to get an enhanced user experience? He says that iPad users are frustrated because “they can’t type, they can’t create documents, they don’t have Office there.”
Gates goes on to say that he believes there’s nothing in the iPad that would make him wish Microsoft had done that for their own product. These remarks come despite the fact that Windows 8 and Surface tablet are both off to a sluggish start, though the release of Surface Pro has aided the momentum quite a lot. What do you think about this iPad vs Surface scenario? As an iPad user, do you feel frustrated with it and think that it hinders your creativity despite the fact that there are a plethora of third party productivity apps already available for the iPad? You can check out the interview here.
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Microsoft founder and former CEO Bill Gates thinks that a majority of iPad users are frustrated with the tablet over the lack of a physical keyboard, as well as the inability to access Microsoft Office to create documents. He then points to the Microsoft Surface as a proper tablet of sorts, with a desktop-like operating system and access to a physical keyboard.
Gates says that as we all move further into the post-PC era, more and more users want tablets that still act like a PC in a way, and because of the iPad’s hardware and software limitations, Gates says that users are frustrated with the tablet. He notes that “a lot of those users are frustrated, they can’t type, they can’t create documents, they don’t have Office there.”
As for Microsoft’s Surface line of tablets, Gates says that they provide the “portability of the tablet but the richness of the PC,” citing that the Surface Pro has a full-blown desktop OS, as well as the ability to connect a physical keyboard to the tablet. For what it’s worth, the iPad also has keyboard options, as well as the ability to create documents with a slew of office suite options.
Of course, Microsoft Office for iOS has been in the works for a while now, but with a release window pushed back to the fall of next year, we’re continuously losing interest due to the fact that there are already numerous office suite options out there for iOS, including the free Google Drive app.
[via Business Insider]
Bill Gates: iPad users frustrated over lack of keyboard is written by Craig Lloyd & originally posted on SlashGear.
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If you have been following nerd news at all, then you know that Bill Gates has issued a challenge through The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. They are offering $100,000(USD) to the person who can come up with the best idea to improve on condom technology.
That’s not as easy a task as it sounds, but our pal Joerg Sprave at The Slingshot Channel is on top of things and came up with a solution that could one day make condoms easier to apply. There are a few kinks to work out first though.
This slingshot is pretty good at applying a condom at point blank range. They just have to work on the whole distance thing. Plus, this has got to hurt when applied to an actual person.
[via Geeks Are Sexy]
The founders of Microsoft, Paul Allen and Bill Gates, actually took the time and trouble to pose with state of the art computers in June 25, 1981, the day when Microsoft was incorporated as a business in Washington. Gates, as the president and chairman of the board, alongside Allen became executive vice president, realized that they needed to have a decent photo taken of the both of them, and that particular shot became a classic over the years, with Gates wearing a sweater while Allen was decked out in a suit and a tie.
Fast forward more than a couple of decades down the road, and here we are with a recreated photo of that classic shot, where Allen with his computer museum in Seattle provided the backdrop for this recreated photo. Allen said, “It is possible that no other technology on earth has so continually renewed itself as computer technology. Advances in this field arrive in such swift succession that even the software and hardware of a few seasons ago are considered obsolete.” It would also have been cool if they maintained the same pose, except with the latest developments in today’s computing world for added effect.
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Back in 1981, Bill Gates and Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen pulled of an audacious feat: they licensed MS-DOS to IBM, but in a deal that saw them retain entire control of the software. To mark the occasion, the pair were photographed amid a sea of contemporary computers—and now they’ve recreated the image. More »
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