Bill Gates on Apple’s ‘Keynote’ app: ‘I doubt what they’ve done is as rich as PowerPoint’

Thursday, January 9, 2003 9:16 am3 Comments

Bill Gates, in an interview yesterday from Reuters, was asked about Apple’s new presentation app called Keynote, his “remarks came a day after Apple introduced two new programs that compete with already dominant software offerings from Microsoft. One of those new Apple offerings, called Keynote, is positioned to compete with Microsoft’s PowerPoint, while a Web browser called Safari could replace Microsoft’s Internet Explorer for Mac users. ‘I doubt what they’ve done is as rich as PowerPoint,’ said Gates, who added he had not seen Apple’s program,” reports Reuters. Full story here.

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SwitchMonkey

Thursday, January 9, 2003 at 10:25 am

Has Gates even seen the cool new software which he is casting doubt upon??

Rich with what? Bugs?

OOO ooo EEE eeee

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Sol

Thursday, January 9, 2003 at 11:14 am

Well at least he admitted to not having seen Keynote or Safari. Anyway, I would love to see his face the first time he gets a good look at Keynote.

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Nick

Thursday, January 9, 2003 at 2:16 pm

The article this came from mentions that the keynote started with a montage that compare the Altair to the iMac. Does anyone know what context this was in? Was it pro or anti iMac? Just curious.

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