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To: D. Swiss who wrote (109442)	3/15/1999 8:38:00 AM
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Drew:Interesting industry developments to watch----> Nortel, Microsoft, HP, Intel ready networking plan At an event on Monday, the companies will detail how they're working with each other on products that focus on the convergence of communications and computing. (3/12/99 5:03 PM ET) Gates predicts NT's high-end success next year Microsoft's CEO also said the company within a decade will integrate speech and handwriting recognition into its operating system software. (3/12/99 5:03 PM ET) 80G-byte disks for desktop PCs likely in two years Analysts offer their industry predictions at a disk drive conference in Singapore. (3/12/99 5:03 PM ET) =========================== More on Gate's prediction of NT's high-end success....> Online News, 03/12/99 05:03 PM) Gates predicts NT's high-end success next year By Rob Guth YOKOHAMA -- In a speech here last night, Microsoft Corp. Chairman and CEO Bill Gates predicted that within one year, his company will "conquer" the high end of the operating system market. He also said that within 10 years, the company will integrate speech and handwriting recognition into its operating system products. Speaking at the second day of a Microsoft developer's conference here, Gates also said that making better Web site development tools is the "guaranteed opportunity" for new software businesses. Gates was responding to a question from the audience about what type of business he would start if he weren't running Microsoft. The Microsoft chief, on a tour of Microsoft's Asian operations this week, said the Windows operating system has defied skeptics over the past 10 years and will continue to do so in the future. Gates pointed to Microsoft's quest to strengthen Windows NT to better compete with high-end systems, though he didn't specifically mention the current king of that market segment, the Unix operating system. Unix today has many fiercely loyal followers who criticize Windows NT as being not robust enough for high-end workstations and server applications. "Today, the skeptics are only in the very, very high end . . . . In the next year, we'll conquer that," he said confidently. Gates said two areas in which Microsoft is boosting the Windows operating system are scalability and reliability. He explained, "We know that the Windows platform needs to go beyond any existing platform in these two respects." Gates touted his company's work, saying that using Windows NT as the base, Microsoft has built systems that can process 1 billion transactions in a day, which he said is "far more than any company needs today." In addition, Gates said "simplicity" is another guiding principle in Microsoft's operating system development. After spending a day reviewing error messages that Windows displays to users, "even I couldn't understand a great number of them, so I felt a great sympathy for customers," Gates said. Making PCs easier to use "is an area that is ripe for innovation," he concluded. That need for simplicity will make speech and handwriting recognition "standard features of the operating system," he answered when asked what users can expect from Windows in 10 years. "Devices that use it will be far more approachable than the PC is today," he said. The thrust of Gates' speech was Microsoft's view that companies should use networks and systems to integrate employees, customers and partners into what it calls "digital nervous systems." The key point of the concept is that companies can boost their competitiveness by using computers and networks to disperse more information both internally and to partners so that "information, good and bad, will be there for everybody to see very easily," he said. "I don't think any company is achieving the full potential today, even Microsoft," he said........ Source:ComputerWorld