Gates hails software advances
eWeek | at | by Mike
PC users could see big breakthroughs in the years ahead as what is in the Microsoft Corp. pipeline is more exciting than anything the software giant has ever cooked up, Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates said at the annual financial analysts day here on Thursday.
In a talk about innovation and how it fits into the software industry, Gates said that being able to redistribute $30 billion indicated just how far the software business model has come.
Pointing to the effect that new hardware has had on enabling new scenarios and advances in software, Gates highlighted the ability for users to be able to run both 32-bit and 64-bit applications on the same piece of hardware.