Bill Gates versus Steve Jobs

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Before I start the section Fakhredin Blog Webrambles (you can now find it at the right side of the page), I used to save interesting links that I found without categorizing them. Today, in the middle of hundreds of those unsorted link archive, I saw this one from BBC: "Bill Gates versus Steve Jobs." Bill Gates is the chief of Microsoft, and Steve Jobs is the chief of Apple and Pixar film animation studio. The interesting thing is that they have the same age! They are both 51 years old!

I became interested in the discussion about Mac versus PC, when I started using Apple a few month ago. If you ask me I say that a Mac is much much better than a PC. Not only the design of all Mac computers and accessories is beautiful, they also work much more smoothly.

Here is what BBC said about Bill and Steve:

Steve Jobs
Born in 1955
Chief executive of Apple and Pixar film animation studio
Wealth estimated at $2bn

1. Steve Jobs was born in 1955 in the area now known as Silicon Valley.
2. Adopted in his infancy, as an adult he traced his biological sister, the novelist Mona Simpson.
3. He ran his first business from a garage with his friend Steve Wozniak.
4. He built his business on delivering a user-friendly personal computer for ordinary people.
5. He named the Apple Corporation after his favourite fruit.
6. Forced out of Apple in the mid 80s, he was brought back a decade later to salvage its fortunes.
7. Apple became the largest Internet music business earlier this year, selling 10 million tunes in four months.
8. He built up the Pixar computer animation studio which has made films including Finding Nemo, A Bug's Life and the Toy Story films
9. The philosophy of one of the characters in "A Bug's Life" mirrors Jobs' own motivation to "make a difference".
10. 10. He is a vegetarian, as is his wife Laurene whom he married in 1991.

Bill Gates
Born in 1955
Chief Software Architect at Microsoft
Wealth estimated at $40bn

1. Bill Gates had sold his first programme by the age of 17. His school paid him $4,200 for a programme on time-tabling.
2. He dropped out of Harvard to concentrate on his business.
3. Bill Gates co-founded Microsoft in 1975 and served as Chief Executive Officer until 2000.
4. The secret of Microsoft's wealth was to license its software so that earnings rose in proportion to the number of users.
5. He is currently working on the next generation of Microsoft software for Internet platform and services.
6. He has donated many billions of dollars to charity through the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
7. A spoof Internet report that he had been shot dead knocked $3bn off the Korean stock market.
8. His fortune was recently put at $40bn down from $100bn during the dot.com boom.
9. Around 90% of the world's computers run on Microsoft's Windows software leading to complaints of anti-competitive tactics.
10. E-mails from bill@microsoft.com sent to thousands of people this summer were fakes and carried a computer virus.

Labels: Computer

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