MICROSOFT chairman Bill Gates said yesterday
the dramatic growth of the internet would eventually help eliminate
"the last constraints we have" and spark a software-writing revolution.
Mr
Gates, at a forum in Hong Kong to mark the 10th anniversary of the
software giant's Asian research arm, added that technology currently
being developed would transform the way people use computers, expanding
their ability to interact with the machines.
Increasing internet connection will greatly broaden services for
users, allowing them remote access to a wide range of software and
information, he said.
"People often talk about this as the internet service revolution," Mr Gates told a gathering of 1600 researchers and academics
"That will eventually lead to machines with lots of server capacity,
low-cost computing, low-cost storage. And that will let us write
software in an even more ambitious way, eliminating the last
constraints we have."
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