Retired Gates Predicts Software Revolution

Iria · Aug 17, 2008, 05:48 AM

Bill Gates, chairman, co-founder and former head of Microsoft, predicts that continual expansion of Internet services will provoke a revolution in software development.
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Source: PC World

ET3D · Aug 17, 2008, 05:41 PM

I don't have any great belief in Bill Gates' ability to predict the future.

OOAgent · Aug 18, 2008, 01:50 AM

Well he did say that everyone someday will own a computer in their home, and people laughed.

but i also believe he did say computers will never need more than 8MB of RAM...

Callandor · Aug 18, 2008, 01:57 AM

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Originally Posted by ET3D

I don't have any great belief in Bill Gates' ability to predict the future.

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Originally Posted by OOAgent

Well he did say that everyone someday will own a computer in their home, and people laughed.

but i also believe he did say computers will never need more than 8MB of RAM...

OldBuzzard · Aug 18, 2008, 02:41 AM

Actually, I think he said 640KB of RAM

But then, I remember when the company I was working for upgraded from an IBM System 3 to a System 38 that had 64K, and I wonderd just how we could use that much memory

**kris23** · Aug 18, 2008, 02:43 AM

and now we have up to 16GB in desktops and 32GB+ in servers..... what else is next?

an interface with our brains and use our heads as computers themselves?

Aug 17, 2008, 05:48 AM	#1
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