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To: t2 who wrote (22931)	5/19/1999 5:30:00 PM
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Paradise by the 'digital dashboard' zdnet.com Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates spells out his hands-free tech vision to the corporate elite -- and plugs a few products By Mark Hammond, PC Week May 19, 1999 11:08 AM PT REDMOND, Wash. -- Microsoft Corp. Chairman and CEO Bill Gates today outlined a strategy of "knowledge workers without limits," using technology to streamline corporate and customer communications and drive business growth. That philosophy is being incorporated at Microsoft (Nasdaq:MSFT) headquarters, Gates said in a keynote address here at the company's third annual CEO Summit. Within a year, the Redmond campus will have a wireless communications infrastructure for data and voice to streamline employee interactions, Gates said. More than 100 CEOs and business leaders are in Redmond this week for the summit, aimed at emerging information technology advances that drive business. Among the CEOs are Jacques Nasser of Ford Motor Co., Paul O'Neill of Alcoa, Lawrence Bossidy of Allied Signal and Martha Stewart of Marth Stewart Living Omnimedia LLC. Other executives expected at the three-day conference include Michael Dell of Dell Computer Corp., Michael Eisner of Walt Disney Co., Rupert Murdoch of News Corp. and Berkshire Hathaway Inc.'s Warren Buffett. Getting behind the 'digital dashboard' In his keynote address, Gates outlined strategies for empowering knowledge workers. They ranged from wireless connectivity to corporate data from mobile phones and other small devices to so-called "digital dashboards," Microsoft's term for what others call an enterprise information portal. Gates evangelized on the customizable digital dashboard as a key means for executives to gain a panoramic view of corporate data, with live data feeds, search capabilities, instant access to business intelligence applications, alert functions and urgent e-mails. "You need a system that can pull data and put it at a very high level and let you dive into it," Gates said. He also touted a concept of "meetings without walls," conducted instead over the Web, and discussed advances in software and hardware that help to bridge the gap between reading on paper and reading on a PC or smaller device. On another emerging technology, a Microsoft official demonstrated a system that enabled him to check and respond to his e-mail over a phone line through a headset. "There are a lot of revolutionary things that really are within our reach," Gates said. But despite dramatic advances in widely available technologies, many individuals and companies remain behind the curve, Gates said. "This is still a world that is very, very paper-driven," he said. "When you really look at the statistics and see how many people are using [technology], you get a clear sense that we have a long ways to go." On Tuesday, Microsoft and Xerox Corp. (NYSE:XRX) announced a joint technology and marketing initiative aimed at accelerating and simplifying knowledge-sharing in the office.