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Macworld has live coverage on their site from the historic dual stage presentation of Steve Jobs and Bill Gates. You can read the coverage on their site by clicking here. Some highlights:

“We made this bet that this paradigm shift would happen, to graphical interfaces, and that the Mac would be the one to do it,” said Gates. “The big bet wasn’t Mac versus Windows, it was character-mode versus graphics interface.”

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Gates and Jobs also traded comments about the Mac vs. PC television advertisements that pit actors John Hodgman and Justin Long against each other, as anthropomorphic Windows PC and Mac, respectively.

Jobs said the art of those advertisements is not to be mean, but for the guys to like each other. “His mother loves him,” said Gates, ruefully, about the PC character.

“PC Guy is what makes it all work,” added Jobs, but Gates seemed unconvinced.

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“We did look a lot younger in that video,” Gates ruminated. He added that many of the people both Gates and Jobs worked with in the early days have moved on to other things. “I actually kind of miss some of the people who aren’t around anymore,” he said.

Jobs explained that when they started out, he and Gates were often the youngest guys in the room. Now they’re often the oldest. “I say eveything in life is like a Beatles song or a Bob Dylan song. But there’s that one line in that one Beatles song, ‘You and I have memories longer than the road that stretches out ahead.’ And that clearly is true here.”

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