Gates: Microsoft zeros in on Model-Based Programming
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Microsoft will be moving more deeply into the model-based programming space, said company chairman and chief software architect Bill Gates. Gates, who was the opening speaker at the Microsoft Financial Analysts Meeting here Thursday, listed model-driven development as one of the company's software advances and said that the use of modeling will become available in interim products leading up to the release of the company's Longhorn operating system in 2005.
Gates described modeling as using "very high-level specs that describe how software is to be pulled together. We see that as literally part of the source code." Indeed Gates said modeling is to become an integral part of "how to create that code."