...the software mogul and philanthropist told Lee at the start of their meeting at the presidential Blue House...
Posted on 05/06/2008 1:46:14 PM PDT by kingattax
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates said there will be a vast shift in Internet technology over the next decade as he met Tuesday with South Korean President Lee Myung-bak.
"We're approaching the second decade of (the) digital age," the software mogul and philanthropist told Lee at the start of their meeting at the presidential Blue House, according to a media pool report.
"The Internet has been operating now for 10 years," Gates said. "The second 10 years will be very different."
Microsoft Corp., the South Korean government and South Korean companies are investing $313 million in information technology for vehicles, games and education, according to a Blue House statement.
Microsoft and automakers Hyundai Motor Inc. and Kia Motors Corp. announced earlier Tuesday a deal to use Microsoft's in-car software, which allows people to control music and telephones with voice commands.
The company has a one-year exclusivity deal on the software with Ford Motor Co. in the U.S., but that expires in November. Fiat also has been selling cars with the software.
"We're doing some very interesting work on automobile software," Gates said after having dinner with Lee. "That's a really wide open area where some very exiting things will come out of."
Lee, a conservative former construction CEO, swept into office in February with a vow to boost economic growth through deregulation and increasing foreign investment.
In the Blue House statement, Gates was quoted as saying that new deals would boost South Korea's economic growth by as much as $6.9 billion over the next five years.
Gates, at a later event sponsored by South Korean television network SBS, talked about the future of software and human interaction in the next decade.
"We can expect that the variety and quality of software will accelerate in the years ahead," the Microsoft co-founder said.
Gates added that "natural interaction" between hardware and software was finally becoming possible, citing as an example speech commands to computers.
"The whole environment will be very, very different," he said.
Microsoft also said Tuesday that it will invest $280 million to build a research and development center in China's capital Beijing, and will double the number of its full-time research staff in China to 3,000 in three to five years
Is it going to cook my dinner?
Just let me know when high speed internet is available at my house (satellite connection does not count).
...the software mogul and philanthropist told Lee at the start of their meeting at the presidential Blue House...
Billy boy, you just don't get it, do you?
Microsoft didn't invent the Internet in 1998...
Internet Explorer 1.0 was released in 1995, 13 years ago. I guess it just displayed an hourglass for the first three years until the Internet was started ten years ago.
The big break through in terms of the general public awareness was Netscape which came out in 1994.
Imagine having to reboot your car while it’s stopped dead in the middle of a busy intersection!
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Great! I can now upgrade from Mosaic.
The Internet has generally been an area where Microsoft has been reduced to playing catch-up. What makes anybody think that Bill Gates has any particularly valuable insights about its future?
As long as he or Microsoft are not in any way involved in it, it won’t die within a week.
Microsoft and Gates were late to the Internet party. Did he mention that, too?
Arrogant little prick, isn't he?
Why not invest here? Oh wait he can pay 4.00 an hour over there and they steal our technology anyway.
Did you hear about the four computer engineers who were carpooling to work? One day their car broke down. In order to fix it, they all got out of the car and then got back in again. :^)
LOL, I was about to post that he must not be including the Air Mosaic years. Ah, the first bulletin boards (precursor to newsgroups) were such fun.
Huh? Only ten years? Where’s he been?
counting his money i guess
The Internet has been operating now for 10 years,” Gates said. “The second 10 years will be very different.”
Leaving aside the question of how long said internet has been operating, this statement leaves me breathless in terms of its going way out on a limb? Going to be very different? Do tell, Billy. I coulda told ya that - where’s my 50 billion?
Yeh, the net’s going to improve by orders of magnitude as soon as we successfully remove all malware (read Microsoftware) from it. Step one is proceeding, Microsoft has demonstrated it’s inability to dance with Vista. Their next stumble shojld be fun to watch.
Bill Gates was the same person that had a big show when they released WINDOWS 3.0
He announced it was the ‘first Graphical interface for computers’.
Which was a surprise to Apple, and Xerox.
On the internet claim, I remember using Tymnet and Telenet, and.. well. I am preaching to the choir.
The internet has been around since the early 60’s.
It was the HTML programing language and browsers (Netscape, I.E) theat gave us the World Wide Web
Is there going to be a “punish” button added to Outlook so I can shock all my friends that spam me with crap every day until they quit sending me stuff embedded with malware and giving my name to mass spammers?
That would be handy if you ask me.
Just a dweeb with too much money and a desperate need to feel really relevant...
Boy, Gates is really going out on a limb here. He’s a regular Madame Cleo.
“The second 10 years will be very different.”
“We’re doing some very interesting work on automobile software. That’s a really wide open area where some very exiting [sic] things will come out of.”
“We can expect that the variety and quality of software will accelerate in the years ahead.”
... citing as an example speech commands to computers.
“The whole environment will be very, very different,” he said.
I just bought a brand new SUV with the Microsoft "Sync" software and on board navigation system. I haven't had to reboot the vehicle yet, but I expect it any day now. lol
Microsoft wants a vast toll gate.
CISCO has done 10,000 times more than microsoft to make the web what it is today - heck porn providers have done more than the Redmond rangers. I predict NetFlix will do more in the next decade than Microsoft who thinks the internet is a nifty way to fix security holes, software conflicts and OS problems that slipped through development. IE is Gates vision for the internet and Vista for the desk top, no wonder Gates is looking over seas for suckers.
Your right. He really went out on a limb without confering with Algore.
Shuddup and program BASIC, Billy!
I was suggesting that the result of the “natural interaction” of hardware and Windows is the BSOD. :-)
LOL
Over 10 minutes to type a few lines of text.
It's the Bill Gates reality distortion field. Every time I see the guy do an interview or make some speech, he never fails to utter some self serving jaw dropping inaccuracy.
Nah...that’s what micro waves are for LOL
Why does anybody care what Gates thinks on this subject? He has never had a clear vision of technology. Cue back to the early-mid 90s when he thought closed online communities like AOL were the future and this “Internet” thing wasn’t going anywhere.
Now have Gates speak about the software business and I’ll be listening.
Remember “Imminent death of Internet predicted”?
He probably sees the Internet through a Microsoft lens -- dating its existence back to when Internet Explorer was achieving dominance in the browser market.
Especially after upgrading to 300 bps!
The former is somewhat understandable in a monolithic kernel architecture, the latter is inexcusable.
Translation: “I’ve found a way to make another sh_tpot of money off it”.
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