Gates outlines the future of software
Web services will have a "catalytic effect" on software development; speech recognition will go mainstream in three to four years; search capabilities will feature richer, clearer interfaces; and security, well, Bill Gates is not about to let security get in the way of his digital vision.
Addressing 7,000 developers during a recent visit to Singapore, Microsoft's chairman and chief software architect Gates described software as "the fastest changing element" in a world of technology which is also evolving on other fronts. Hardware improvements are occurring at an "exponential rate" with marked increases in networking speeds and storage capacity, the availability of 64-bit computing on standard servers is paving the way for the technology to go mainstream with low-cost hardware, and a common architecture is emerging from the laptop to the server.
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