Boing Boing: Peter Jennings interviews Bill Gates on ABC World News Tonight

Wednesday, February 16, 2005

Peter Jennings interviews Bill Gates on ABC World News Tonight

On ABC World News Tonight with Peter Jennings this evening, an extensive interview with Microsoft chairman Bill Gates. Among other things -- it's a long one -- they discuss security, outsourcing, and the Firefox browser (coincidentally, Firefox is the most popular browser among Boing Boing readers according to our server stats).

JENNINGS: I read an article coming up here on Firefox (Web browser) and its perceived ability to do this better than you. Is that fair?
GATES: Well, there's competition in every place that we're in. The browser space that we are in we have about 90 percent. Sure Firefox has come along and the press love the idea of that. Our commitment is to keep our browser that competes with Firefox to be the best browser — best in security, best in features. In fact, we just announced that we'll have a new version of the browser so we're innovating very rapidly there and its our commitment to have the best.
JENNINGS: Are you going to have to push your browser faster because of competition?
GATES: Well, competition is always a fantastic thing, and the computer industry?
JENNINGS: I knew you were going to say that (laughs).
GATES: (smiles) … is intensely competitive. Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes.

Link to transcript

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