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<p align=center style='text-align:center'><b><font size=5 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>Microsoft Bill
Gates Takes Google, Terrorism War to Israel</span></font></b></p>
<p><b><i><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Arial;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'>By Joel Leyden<br>
Israel News Agency </span></font></i></b></p>
<p><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Jerusalem----October
30 ….He came, he saw, but did he conquer?<br>
Bill Gates, the Microsoft CEO, made his first trek to Israel, but his media
presence was upstaged by a terror bombing in Hadera. In addition, most likely
due to Gates strict security contingent, his schedule was not broadcast by the
Government Press Office which usually provides the schedules of visiting heads
of state and celebrities.</span></font></p>
<p><b><font size=3 color=red face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;color:red;font-weight:bold'>Gates arrival in Israel was not
coincidental.</span></font></b><font face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'>
The co-creator of Microsoft did not turn into a Zionist overnight. <b><font
color=red><span style='color:red;font-weight:bold'>One just needs to quickly
look at Israel's hi-tech headlines the month before. Does one remember the
story about Google opening an office in Israel? Bill Gates does. So does
Microsoft Israel and their marketing team. </span></font></b>But why would Bill
Gates risk his life coming to Israel - a tiny Island of democracy in the
Middle-East which bleeds nearly every day as a result of Islamic terrorism?</span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Bill
Gates did not become the wealthiest man on the planet by winning the lottery.
Current reports estimate that Gates is worth 30 billion. Rather he was in the
right place at the right time. With a brilliant mind and the dedication of a
workaholic, Gates made and has kept his wealth. He is an excellent businessman
with several finely tuned visions of tomorrow's workplace and he plans to
retain his place as a world leader.<br>
So with or without Hamas, Al Qaeda and Islamic Jihad, <b><font color=red><span
style='color:red;font-weight:bold'>Gates would come to Israel to do battle on
Google's new turf. Gates would not have the Google flag planted in Israel
without a fight. </span></font></b>But would Gates also address terrorism while
in Israel?</span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Bill
Gates went about his average business signing a meager but symbolic <b><font
color=red><span style='color:red;font-weight:bold'>1.4-million-dollar agreement
with Israel to encourage Israel start- up companies</span></font></b>. <b><font
color=red><span style='color:red;font-weight:bold'>"It's no exaggeration
to say that the kind of innovation going on in Israel is critical to the future
of the technology business," Gates</span></font></b>, who spent only 24
hours in Israel, told a news conference in Tel Aviv with Acting Israel Finance
Minister Ehud Olmert. <b><font color=red><span style='color:red;font-weight:
bold'>"So many great companies have been started here," he said,
adding Israel had been "fairly unique", along with the United States,
in creating new products, patents and copyrighted software.</span></font></b>
Gates, who left the David Intercontinental Hotel in Tel Aviv met later in the
day with Israeli Premier Ariel Sharon. The two announced a project making
computers available to 250,000 underprivileged Israeli pupils. </span></font></p>
<p><b><font size=3 color=red face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;color:red;font-weight:bold'>But the real business appeared to
be Google. Most media reports from Israel transmitted very general soundbytes
making Bill Gates appear warm and cordial. Even Israel <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>Jerusalem Post</span></i> criticized the Gates visit
as all to do with nothing. But the <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Post</span></i>
reporter did not have his eyes on the ball. </span></font></b></p>
<p><b><font size=3 color=red face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;color:red;font-weight:bold'>Google and Microsoft are at war.
They are spending millions in research and marketing to out do one another.</span></font></b><font
face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'> Google is aiming on taking down the
Microsoft operating system and replacing it with their own. After all why
should Google be second with a search toolbar clinging uncertainly to a Windows
browser? And why should Microsoft all but be forgotten with its 12 percent
market share in the search and SEO markets?</span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Microsoft
plans to upgrade their search technology in the next six months, Microsoft CEO
Bill Gates said in remarks Wednesday. As Gates praised Israel Prime Minister
Ariel Sharon and Israel's contributions to the global high-tech market. Bill
Gates also answered questions about Microsoft's fierce competition with
Mountain View, California-based Google. "We are not afraid of Google, but
there is intense competition between us. Google is our main competitor,
brilliant people work there, but Internet search engines are still in a
terrible state compared to where they could be," Gates was quoted as
saying in the Israeli daily Yediot Ahronot. </span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>"This
is a situation that we hope will change for the better in the next six months.
We are working on it, as are other companies, such as Google and Yahoo,"
Gates added in comments that were translated into Hebrew. </span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Microsoft
and Yahoo already have been investing heavily in search, hoping to narrow
Google's lead in the field. Google processed 45 percent of US search requests
and SEO activity in September, outdistancing 23 percent for Yahoo and 12
percent for Microsoft's MSN, according to Nielsen/NetRatings. Gates denied the
Redmond, Washington-based Microsoft intends to acquire Google or other leading
Internet companies. Microsoft has recently formed partnerships with Yahoo Inc.
(Nasdaq:YHOO - news) and RealNetworks Inc., and is reportedly interested in buying
a stake in Time Warner Inc.'s AOL service. </span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Google
also has teamed up with with Comcast Corp., the largest U.S. cable company, to
explore buying a minority stake in AOL. Microsoft is sometimes criticized as a
giant that crushes competition. Gates' response to the <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>Maariv</span></i> daily: "Maybe when you succeed
there is always someone who will oppose you." Israel, Gates said, does
"fantastic things in the field of technology and I am excited to be
here." Israel has especially contributed to the area of data security,
Gates was quoted as saying in <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Maariv</span></i>,
largely due to expertise acquired by the Israeli military. Many high-tech
workers in Israel received training from elite military units in areas such as
encryption and computer security. </span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Now,
have we discovered the second reason for Gates visit to Israel? In taking
Google head on would it not make sense for Microsoft, Bill Gates, the Israel
Ministry of Defense and the Israel Defense Forces to cooperate as Gates advises
the US military and Homeland security? But none of this would be stated openly.
No one would dare speak of the Gates - Sharon meeting in Israel as one to do
with democracy's war against global Islamic terrorism. Was Gates also meeting
with the head of the Mossad, the Shaback and their computer heads or just
discussing giving away computers to poor children living in Israel?</span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Just
one day after the Gates - Sharon meeting in Jerusalem, Microsoft announced that
it would team up with the US Federal Trade Commission and Consumer Action to <a
href="http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2005/oct05/10-27Zombie.mspx">promote
PC protection</a>. If Gates is eager to work with the FTC, then how about the
FBI and CIA?</span></font></p>
<p><b><font size=3 color=red face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;color:red;font-weight:bold'>Gates has enormous respect for
Israel, Israel's ability to defend herself and Israel most worthy asset -
brain-power.<br>
"Israel has enormous power in the high-tech world, most people know that
Israel, relative to its size, has made achievements in the field of
technology," Gates told Maariv. Gates refused to say whether Microsoft
plans to expand its 200-person facility in the coastal Israeli city of Haifa.
Expansion of the Haifa facility would provide more jobs in Israel's highly
competitive high-tech market. Israel is considered to be one of the world's
leaders in high-tech products, which account for half of the country's exports.
Many large technology companies, including Microsoft, Motorola and Intel, have
sizable research operations in Israel. Google Inc. recently placed
advertisements in Israel newspapers recruiting Israel engineers for its
Ireland-based operations. "The business achievements of Microsoft in
Israel are excellent and the company is currently working to massively expand
its research and development budgets worldwide," Gates was quoted as
saying in Israel's largest Hebrew daily <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Yediot</span></i>.</span></font></b></p>
<p><b><font size=3 color=red face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;color:red;font-weight:bold'>“Considering the density of
Israeli start-ups and local successes, Israel is like a bit of Silicon
Valley,” Microsoft co-founder and chairman Bill Gates told
"Globes" yesterday. </span></font></b><font face=Arial><span
style='font-family:Arial'>Gates said that being the richest man in the world
“is a privilege, but also a responsibility.” He said that working
at Microsoft and the charity fund to which he contributes required great
responsibility, but also helped him enjoy life. “I don’t think
about money all day; I think about software and about my family.” The
only thing that disturbed Gates’s calm was questions about Google
(Nasdaq: GOOG), Microsoft’s young, dynamic competitor. Gates said that
Google wasn’t a player in Microsoft’s field, adding that it had
copied some of its products from other companies. </span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>(...
continued here: <a
href="http://www.israelnewsagency.com/microsoftgoogleisraelseo581030.html">http://www.israelnewsagency.com/microsoftgoogleisraelseo581030.html</a>)</span></font></p>
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