Bill Gates: In 2014, magic software, free hardware
through Tech-Update
SAN DIEGO--During an interview at the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo 2004, Bill Gates was asked to give his vision of computing in the year 2014. He cited the "magic of software" and the continuation of Moore's Law as the key components that would bring about new technology advances in the coming decade.
Within 10 years, said Gates, hardware could be considered as almost free, with powerful server and desktop systems, high bandwidth networks and wireless technology bringing anytime, anywhere connections.
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"If I had been born in India, maybe the one location would be in India or maybe it would be in China," Gates said. "It could be done there. Now, you wouldn't be closest to the world's biggest, most demanding market, but you could overcome that. You'd have to have a liaison group in to see those customers a lot. It turns out we are in the world's biggest, most demanding market, and I think that's some help to us. But the key point is, are you going to fragment it across a lot of different locations? Some companies in the technology industry do things across multiple locations, and we seen the inner lab fights and the lack of common architecture between labs. We have one common architecture, everybody working towards one way of doing modeling, one set of Web services protocols. That uniformity allows us to make the advances as fast as we can."
On the other hand, Microsoft maintains research and development facilities in the United Kingdom, China, India and other countries.
SAN DIEGO--During an interview at the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo 2004, Bill Gates was asked to give his vision of computing in the year 2014. He cited the "magic of software" and the continuation of Moore's Law as the key components that would bring about new technology advances in the coming decade.
Within 10 years, said Gates, hardware could be considered as almost free, with powerful server and desktop systems, high bandwidth networks and wireless technology bringing anytime, anywhere connections.
also,
"If I had been born in India, maybe the one location would be in India or maybe it would be in China," Gates said. "It could be done there. Now, you wouldn't be closest to the world's biggest, most demanding market, but you could overcome that. You'd have to have a liaison group in to see those customers a lot. It turns out we are in the world's biggest, most demanding market, and I think that's some help to us. But the key point is, are you going to fragment it across a lot of different locations? Some companies in the technology industry do things across multiple locations, and we seen the inner lab fights and the lack of common architecture between labs. We have one common architecture, everybody working towards one way of doing modeling, one set of Web services protocols. That uniformity allows us to make the advances as fast as we can."
On the other hand, Microsoft maintains research and development facilities in the United Kingdom, China, India and other countries.
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