<Thomas Koll, Microsoft's vice president of Network Solutions Group, was the
conference's first keynote speaker. He made clear that the company has changed its
mission statement.
The Redmond, Wash., company's charter used to be, "A computer on every desk and in
every home." Now, it's "Empower people through great software, anytime, any place
and on any device," Koll said.>
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How sweet it is! Intel, Microsoft, IBM, Ericsson and the whole crew are all clambering around trying to get a piece of the WWeb and CDMA.
A bit of a mouthful though. They are seeing pink flamingoes.
What a victory going into the 2000s. It took 10 years.
The Fun Has Begun
Go Q Go.
Mqurice
PS: Meanwhile, as Microsoft says, Paradigm Shift Happens. Or as George Gilder says, Major Paradigm Shift Happens.
Now we have the USA economy roaring ahead at 5% despite a huge price increase for what used to be the lifeblood of the USA; crude oil. It is sitting easily at 2.5 times the price of a year ago. That would in the past have been enough in itself to cause a major hiccup or hiccough.
Good grief! When oil prices drop, the USA economy is going to get another big kick along. Then, with the advent of Y2K and the fizzer it is sure to be, there will be $300bn or so which will not continue to be spent on fixing the Y2K bug and all that enormous puter expertise will move to actually productive effort.
Y2K is another of those huge development costs we have all suffered in puters over the past 20 years. They are all going the way of the dinosaur. The New Paradigm is roaring.
Good grief, it is absurdly powerful.
I hereby surrender on the Dow declining to the 8000s by June 99 [and the subsequent months].
So, apart from more minor skirmishes downwards, I guess it's back to Dow 16,000 Feb 2002. There are bound to be some good bumps down, but with 5% growth rates and everything accelerating, it's a nice way to enter the 2000s.
Hmmm. Optimism abounded in 1899. There is PLENTY of room for the more prosaic version of "Major Paradigm Shift Happens". So, fingers crossed and off we go on the great adventure into the unknown. The 20th century saw hundreds of smaller wars and a couple of monsters. Civil wars and massive death rates in China and USSR, Rwanda, Cambodia and all over the place. A huge depression. Bad technology choices such as poisonous lead in gasoline. Thalidomide damaging babies. All sorts. Famines, Flu disaster, AIDS, malaria, smallpox [but finally extinguished], heart disease, cancer. Socialism and communism. Fascism and Big Government still the most popular forms.
I guess there is plenty of scope for things to be better. [Or worse!!].
Since we all [nearly all] like to be alive, overall, things are bound to improve as we try to continue that process...
Especially as IT gets the bit between IT's teeth and yanks the reins out of our hands. |
