{"id":85180,"date":"2016-02-01T19:48:50","date_gmt":"2016-02-01T17:48:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=85180"},"modified":"2025-07-02T00:05:28","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T07:05:28","slug":"the-song-that-united-steve-jobs-and-bill-gates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/the-song-that-united-steve-jobs-and-bill-gates\/","title":{"rendered":"The song that united Steve Jobs and Bill Gates"},"content":{"rendered":"

We all have songs that make us think of someone. And now Bill Gates has shared the song that reminds him of Steve Jobs<\/strong> during an interview on BBC Radio 4\u00b4s Desert Island Discs – we recommend that you listen here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Desert Island Discs began back in 1956 \u2013 that\u2019s right its 60 years-old. But, if you don\u2019t know the format, its quite simple: a single guest is asked what eight recording they would take with them if they were stranded on a desert island, and then interviewed about their choices. During Bill Gates’s 28 minutes on the show he began talking about Steve Jobs calling him an \u201cincredible genius\u201d<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

In this video we did discover the song that unites them and why<\/strong>, according to Bill Gates.<\/p>\n

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Can\u2019t see the video? Click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

While at first these two giants of computing were allied, we know that they later grew apart. Steve Jobs accused Microsoft of being a monopoly, of having no “taste”, and even copying others\u2019 designs with no “original ideas” of their own. In the below video \u2013 which summarizes their relationship – there is even a moment when Jobs compares Microsoft to McDonald’s<\/strong>: pure gold.<\/p>\n

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Still want more of this rivalry? Then have a look at this video that shows the two facing off at the D5 Conference <\/strong>in 2017.<\/p>\n

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Follow me on Twitter: @AntoniNoguera<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We all have songs that make us think of someone. And now Bill Gates has shared the song that reminds him of Steve Jobs during an interview on BBC Radio 4\u00b4s Desert Island Discs – we recommend that you listen here. Desert Island Discs began back in 1956 \u2013 that\u2019s right its 60 years-old. But, … Continue reading “The song that united Steve Jobs and Bill Gates”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2058,"featured_media":85181,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-85180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2058"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85180"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":329343,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85180\/revisions\/329343"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85180"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=85180"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=85180"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=85180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}