Bill Gates' CES Keynote: Vista To Drive Downloadable Apps

Vikingod · Jan 8, 2007, 02:14 PM

Source: InformationWeek
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In a speech at the computer industry's largest convention of the year, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates said the company's imminent Windows Vista operating system will accelerate its efforts to turn software into a product that's continually updated rather than bought once and left alone.

In his annual opening keynote speech at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas Sunday, Gates reiterated the financial importance to Microsoft of its first new PC operating system since 2001, and said Windows Vista will offer computer users the ability to gain additional features over time—for a price. For Microsoft, merging its huge PC software franchise with the emerging world of Internet software is critical as it competes with Google and other companies more adept at turning 'Net usage into revenue.

Jan 8, 2007, 02:14 PM	#1
Vikingod Int'l Fish Liaison Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: By the light of lamp I sit and type... Posts: 16,197 Rep Power: 112 System Specs	Bill Gates' CES Keynote: Vista To Drive Downloadable Apps Source: InformationWeek __________ In a speech at the computer industry's largest convention of the year, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates said the company's imminent Windows Vista operating system will accelerate its efforts to turn software into a product that's continually updated rather than bought once and left alone. In his annual opening keynote speech at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas Sunday, Gates reiterated the financial importance to Microsoft of its first new PC operating system since 2001, and said Windows Vista will offer computer users the ability to gain additional features over time—for a price. For Microsoft, merging its huge PC software franchise with the emerging world of Internet software is critical as it competes with Google and other companies more adept at turning 'Net usage into revenue.