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Conference 7.286::digital

Title:The Digital way of working
Moderator:QUARK::LIONELON
Created:Fri Feb 14 1986
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:5321
Total number of notes:139771

4058.0. "Bill Gates on Larry King Live" by AKOCOA::kenspc.ako.dec.com::kaminsky () Mon Aug 21 1995 10:30

Bill Gates will be on Larry King Live tonight on CNN.

Given that he does not often grant interviews, it should be interesting.

Ken
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4058.1time/place??AKOCOA::NOVITCHPAMMon Aug 21 1995 13:446
    Is this the same as CNBC?  I think that is where I watch Larry King
    live.  Does anyone have a time EST?
    
    I'd like to tape this.
    
    Pam
4058.2QUARK::LIONELFree advice is worth every centMon Aug 21 1995 13:503
CNN is not CNBC.  Larry King is on CNN.

			Steve
4058.39:00 ESTAKOCOA::kenspc.ako.dec.com::kaminskyMon Aug 21 1995 14:123
I believe Larry King is on at 9:00 p.m. EST.

Ken
4058.4BRAT::NESTORMon Aug 21 1995 15:415
    9:00pm eastern time is correct - CNN has been hyping this quite a bit
    since last week.
    
    Barry 
    
4058.5Sounds funWELCLU::SHARKEYALoginN - even makes the coffee@Mon Aug 21 1995 17:324
    2.00am UK time - ouch - time for the video.
    
    Alan
    
4058.6AXEL::FOLEYRebel without a ClueMon Aug 21 1995 23:153

	Any idea if they repeat it later?
4058.8Great to see Microsoft's CEO learning from his mistakesDRDAN::KALIKOWDIGITAL=DEC: ReClaim TheName!Tue Aug 22 1995 03:387
    I just caught a bit of it -- and he was very complimentary to us. 
    Larry asked him whether when one went to the store to buy one's copy of
    Win95, whether one might "get a lemon."  "No," replied Mr. Gates. 
    "That's the beauty of Digital products.  Every copy is the same."
    
    I might have been mistaken on the capitalization, however.
    
4058.9PLAYER::BROWNLTyro-Delphi-hackerTue Aug 22 1995 05:583
    Oh *very* drole DrDan, very drole... :^)
    
    Laurie.
4058.10Nice one, Dan!HLDE01::VUURBOOM_Rset prof/personTue Aug 22 1995 06:041
    
4058.11BHAJEE::JAERVINENOra, the Old Rural AmateurTue Aug 22 1995 08:106
    re .6:
    At least CNN Europe has it this afternoon (1500 CET if I remember
    correctly).
    
    I did [try to] tape the original, but forgot to check the tape this
    morning (it was 3:00 AM CET).
4058.12No plans to moveNETCAD::PERAROTue Aug 22 1995 09:5515
    
    He was asked by one caller if he had any plans to move any of his
    software development to countries where he could get programmers for
    less than what he pays here.
    
    Although he encourgage development everyone, his response was "No". He
    plans to keep everything right here, although he says his company does
    hire smart people from all over the place.
    
    He was also very reluctant to discuss his wife, when Larry asked if she
    enjoyed computers and was involved in the computer/software space. 
    Course, she does work for MicroSoft. :>)
    
    Mary
    
4058.13His Wife Is His Weakness. How Special (tear)MR2SRV::oohyoo.mro.dec.com::wwillisMCS/OMS Service EngineeringTue Aug 22 1995 10:093
I think that was the only time in the interview where he seemed nervous. 
The funny thing was that I think Larry King realized this and kept pressing 
for more info.
4058.14BRAT::NESTORTue Aug 22 1995 10:144
    I thought he seemed to be clearly thrown by the question.
     
    Barry 
    
4058.15HE SAID THE WORDPENUTS::PSLETTEHAUGHDEC: ReClaim TheName!Tue Aug 22 1995 10:1913
    NOW I KNOW WHY MR BILL COULDN'T SAY THE DIGITAL WORD AT THE ALLIANCE.
    IF HE HAD SAID DIGITAL HE WOULD HAVE BEEN TALKING ABOUT HIS "WINDOWS95"
    BUT MAYBE WE CAN BORROW HIS QUOTE???
    
    I LIKED HIS IDEA OF THE CAR YEAR REGARDING PRODUCTS. (EXP. ALPHA95)
    
    I GUESS WE WILL HAVE TO WAIT FOR THE BARBARA WALTERS SPECAIL TO FIND
    OUT ABOUT HIS WIFE.
    
    PFS
    
    6<)
    
4058.16no shouting, please...SUOSWS::64083::BODENSTEDTTCP/IP for the massesTue Aug 22 1995 11:383
re .15

please... don't shout at us in capitals...
4058.17"compact" or "Compaq"??SMURF::STRANGESteve Strange:Digital UNIX, DCE DFSTue Aug 22 1995 13:218
    At one point in the interview when Bill is answering Larry's question
    "do you take your work home with you", Bill says yes, I take my
    compact|compaq portable and dial in to work.  I didn't catch whether
    there was a 't' in the pronunciation of that adjective, but I sure hope
    there was, considering BP just gave Bill a Hinote Ultra that he should
    be using!  :-)
    
    	Steve
4058.18BHAJEE::JAERVINENOra, the Old Rural AmateurTue Aug 22 1995 16:191
    Sounded like Compaq to me...
4058.19NCMAIL::SMITHBTue Aug 22 1995 16:264
    I liked how he gushed about data sharing, and empowerment, blah, blah,
    blah, some old lady asked him when he was going to make software for 
    lay-people.  Also,  his comment that you needed to be a technologist
    to run a tecnology company was a nice shot at IBM (Gerstner)...
4058.20SHRCTR::DAVISWed Aug 23 1995 09:546
                     <<< Note 4058.19 by NCMAIL::SMITHB >>>

>    lay-people.  Also,  his comment that you needed to be a technologist
>    to run a tecnology company was a nice shot at IBM (Gerstner)...

Not to mention Apple, with the Pepsi man.
4058.21DRDAN::KALIKOWDIGITAL=DEC: ReClaim TheName&amp;Glory!Wed Aug 23 1995 10:195
    Well, to his credit, John Sculley *does* have some technoid
    background... if memory serves, he did some work (at amateur hobbyist
    level, or better?) with graphics display technology (TV?) and with
    time-lapse photography...
    
4058.22ATLANT::SCHMIDTSee http://atlant2.zko.dec.com/Wed Aug 23 1995 10:355
  Who's John Sculley? ,-)

  Apple *IS* run by a technology guy: Michael Spindler.

                                   Atlant
4058.23Missed me, Atlant... :-)DRDAN::KALIKOWDIGITAL=DEC: ReClaim TheName&amp;Glory!Wed Aug 23 1995 11:346
    .21> Well, to his credit, John Sculley *does* have some technoid
    
    ... since he IS still alive, I felt it inappropriate to use *did* above...
    
    But bang on, on whoever it was that brought up "the Pepsi-man" as if it
                    were still true that he's steering that ship... :-)
4058.24CSC32::WILCOXA temporary inconvenienceTue Sep 05 1995 16:587
>    lay-people.  Also,  his comment that you needed to be a technologist
>    to run a tecnology company was a nice shot at IBM (Gerstner)...

I can't complain about how my shares of IBM stock are doing :-).

Liz
4058.25MSBCS::EVANSWed Sep 06 1995 11:046
If you bought your shares of IBM at 150 you probably wouldn't be overjoyed
just yet.

jim

4058.26CSC32::WILCOXCourting the MouseMon Sep 11 1995 11:5311
                      <<< Note 4058.25 by MSBCS::EVANS >>>


>>If you bought your shares of IBM at 150 you probably wouldn't be overjoyed
>>just yet.

No doubt!  Fortunately, I didn't have to buy them and when I got them
they were at $42.

:-).