Gates: PCs Not Perfect
Reuters | at | by Mike
Bill Gates admitted it - PCs don't work very well. And he promised to fix that - over the next decade. Opening the largest U.S. computer trade show, COMDEX, Gates, the chairman and chief software architect of Microsoft Corp., predicted that technology would eventually come together well enough to fade into the background and let users focus on what they want to do. The economy would feel a boost as a result, he said.
"It's got to be a lot easier than it is today," Gates said, referring to the "laborious process" of fixing computer problems, fears of programs crashing each other, and the difficulties of actually using advances, such as Microsoft's software for Internet meetings.