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To: unclewest who wrote (25702)	7/26/1999 8:07:00 AM
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news from the mouth of bill gates...the picture gets clearer...gates talks bandwidth. 07/23/99, 12:19 p.m. ET) By Stuart Glascock, TechWeb When Microsoft CEO Bill Gates peers into his crystal ball, he sees many new worlds for software. Gates, speaking Thursday at the company's annual financial analysts meeting in Seattle, talked about the future of wireless networks, new PC forms, digital video, streaming media, interactive television, and technical topics ranging from digital-rights management to XML schemas to MP3 to IEEE standards. Gates demonstrated several concept PCs, such as a Sony PC with a built-in camera for video or still pictures. "[Soon] that same camera will recognize who is there using the PC," he said. "Neat new colors seem to be the new thing," Gates said, looking at a bright red prototype device. "Apple is providing leadership in colors. It won't take us long to catch up with that. They made a big mistake with the iBook. It only has two colors," he said, drawing laughs from the crowd. He pointed out a flat-screen monitor with DVD on the side and praised the evolution of new forms of PCs. "We will have a phone built into PCs in the year 2000," Gates said. "We think every website you go to should have that interactive ability. For some people, like online brokerages or banks, it will really make a difference. The phone will be a standard feature in the future." Gates honed in on the need to create the paperless office. Collaboration with co-workers will change with better and fewer meetings, more work done in teams, and less time wasted, Gates said. "To change the workplace better, we need to think of it in a holistic way," he said. "Why have a different address for phone, fax, e-mail? That needs to come together. Internet communications will be a combined environment with the voice world." Shifting from the workplace, Gates said he would like to see a PC in every living room. Home networking -- bringing together the PC, television, stereo, and other devices -- will be a major focus for Microsoft, he said. "We're building a Windows Web-centric platform," Gates said. The next big bet is the user interface, with additions like voice and language understanding, and visual and handwriting recognition, he said. "We will need a new set of APIs, much more profound and complex than the Windows API." intel says and i quote, ""In fact, Direct RDRAM-based PCs will have two- to three-times as much memory bandwidth"" as the PC100 SDRAM-based systems on the market today. Direct RDRAM provides the bandwidth to allow applications to scale in performance with faster processors, graphics and I/O for years to come. With such compelling reasons to design with Direct RDRAM, expect platforms and memory to ramp at an accelerated pace." unclewest