“The biggest change for me – and it’s a major change – will be to think about how to improve the lives of the poorest people on the planet, whether they need education, to increase their harvest, or to find better medical treatment...”
Q: And you don’t regret anything?
A: Of course I can look back and think about some people I recruited, about certain times I acted naive, about acquisitions we made, or about things we could have launched sooner. But I wouldn’t change anything, because it’s a dream come true to have been able to play such an important role. We learned as we went along, including from our mistakes, because we were the first company to believe in the personal computer. The entire industry has expanded around our Basic operating system, then MS-DOS and, finally, Windows.
Q: But the PC isn’t the centre of everything now.
A: I’m talking about software, not the PC, that incredible object, thanks to which the Internet emerged. We shouldn’t downplay the role of the PC, but here it’s a software question. Thanks to software, we are revolutionising TV, the way you drive your car, the way you use your cell phone. We stayed away from hardware on purpose, but when you see those new ultra-portable computers replacing school notebooks and many PCs in business, you can’t underestimate their importance.
Q: But the distribution of this software has evolved, upsetting your business model.
A: Major breakthroughs have been made in graphic interfaces and the power of personal applications that allow you, for example, to exchange business plans remotely. A new language has been created that allows us to do things. Everything goes through fibre optics. That’s how Microsoft was created, on the idea that advances in hardware and software would allow us to be more ambitious. That’s why when we founded this company we said, “A computer in every home and on every desk.”
Q: And you don’t regret anything?
A: Of course I can look back and think about some people I recruited, about certain times I acted naive, about acquisitions we made, or about things we could have launched sooner. But I wouldn’t change anything, because it’s a dream come true to have been able to play such an important role. We learned as we went along, including from our mistakes, because we were the first company to believe in the personal computer. The entire industry has expanded around our Basic operating system, then MS-DOS and, finally, Windows.
Q: But the PC isn’t the centre of everything now.
A: I’m talking about software, not the PC, that incredible object, thanks to which the Internet emerged. We shouldn’t downplay the role of the PC, but here it’s a software question. Thanks to software, we are revolutionising TV, the way you drive your car, the way you use your cell phone. We stayed away from hardware on purpose, but when you see those new ultra-portable computers replacing school notebooks and many PCs in business, you can’t underestimate their importance.
Q: But the distribution of this software has evolved, upsetting your business model.
A: Major breakthroughs have been made in graphic interfaces and the power of personal applications that allow you, for example, to exchange business plans remotely. A new language has been created that allows us to do things. Everything goes through fibre optics. That’s how Microsoft was created, on the idea that advances in hardware and software would allow us to be more ambitious. That’s why when we founded this company we said, “A computer in every home and on every desk.”
Source : IIPM Editorial, 2012.
An Initiative of IIPM, Malay Chaudhuri
and Arindam Chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist).
and Arindam Chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist).
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