
Bill Gates, Co-chair, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Behind The Tech with Kevin Scott
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What Is the Agenda for Microsoft's Future?
Xerox had made lots of money on copying machines. They created a research center out in Palo Alto, which was forever known by a Tachron him as Palo Alto Research. Charles Simone was there programming this and did a word processor that let you do things like fonts. And it just blew my mind. That's when the commitment to do software for the Mac emerges from Steve Jobs having a similar experience with Bob Belville at Xerox Park.
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