There are a few things that happen once in a lifetime, like the blessed 09-09-09 date, and the day when Microsoft founder Bill Gates pays a compliment to Apple co founder Steve Jobs.
The latter actually happened on Saturday on a CNBC television program entitled "Warren Buffett and Bill Gates: Keeping America Great". The program had both Steve Jobs and Bill Gates pitched up against a Q&A session, answering questions coughed up by members in the audience. During the session one man asked Bill Gates what he thought about Steve Jobs and his accomplishments as the CEO of Apple.
Much to the shock of the audience, and the entire world, Gates more than politely gave a big compliment to his rival. "Well, he's done a fantastic job," Gates said. "Apple is in a bit of a different business where they make hardware and software together. But when Steve was coming back to Apple, which was actually through an acquisition of NeXT that he ran, Apple was in very tough shape. In fact, most likely it wasn't going to survive."
What's more, the affection didn't stop here, Gates continued to add, "And he brought in a team, he brought in inspiration about great products and design that's made Apple back into being an incredible force in doing good things," Gates added. "And it's great to have competitors like that. We write software for Apple, Microsoft does. They compete with Apple. But he, of all the leaders in the industry that I've worked with, he showed more inspiration and he saved the company."
And here is the bonus - it was announced that next year Microsoft will release Office 2010 for Mac, with a new version of Outlook based on Cocoa, the development layer of Mac OS X.
What next? The AMD CEO saying sweet nothings to the Intel CEO? After all Intel did give AMD a big gift of $1.25 billion just three days ago, AMD should be tickled pink.
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