Bill Gates and Steve Jobs are interviewed live together at the D5: All Things Digital

triple h

When i saw this ( in itunes) i decided to get the podcast. But after seeing it was going to take 14 minutes to download the audio and something like 3 hours to download the video i ran to youtube and watched something like 16 clips of the whole thing.

Anyway i was wondering what ye thought of it?

I think it was good to see Jobs and Gates in the same room and they seem to get along together. I enjoyed watching it, Jobs kept the future secret and Gates was most likely trying to throw out false info. Although Bill did more or less say that the house of the future will all under computer control, bar the bathroom, i reckon that will be the case. Steve says he does not know what things will look like in 10 years time.
Steve answers the question about mac computers that most people in here are worried about. But what will happen when Steve leaves, i wonder?

I think the bottom line is, is that we will still be using the desktop in 5 years time in more or less the same way as we use it today, but steve was thinking of little devices i reckon (eg iphone, ipod and i something else), but yet he reckons the Personal computer will still be important.

My personal opinion is that i reckon some companies are not using computers or the internet the way they should be used, i can see this. So the end result is that there is no need for apple, microsoft and others to make a BIG BIG jump to the next level that is so far out of sight that no one can see it and has no means to get there. I think the next level will upon us when a) someone new and young comes along and b) when everyone is ready for it.

440Hz

Good article on this on BBC news last week, meant to post it at the time and forgot.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6707317.stm

Asked what Gates' contribution to computing had been, Jobs said: "Bill built the first software company before anybody in our industry knew what software was, and that was huge."

Returning the compliment, Gates said Jobs' development of the Apple II computer in 1977 "was an incredibly empowering phenomenon."

so... who gives the nicest compliment then

Sad Professor

I watched some video of the interview. I thought they both looked very awkward together but maybe it was the crappy questions. I mean there's some media commentators saying "oh look they're great friends" etc etc, but the body language screamed otherwise. Jobs has a very strong presence, while Gates just seems like someone who's used to having people stop and listen when he talks.

condra

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHO8l-Bd1O4