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Gates: Hardware, Not Software, Will Be Free

Posted by timothy on from the gas-and-chocolate-will-be-free-too dept.

orthogonal writes "That's small-'f', not capital-'F' free: according to Bill Gates, "Ten years out, in terms of actual hardware costs you can almost think of hardware as being free -- I'm not saying it will be absolutely free --...." Gates expects this almost free hardware to support two of the longest awaited breakthroughs in computing: real speech and handwriting recognition. He further predicts -- ugh! -- that software will not be written but visually designed."

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  1. Re:Visual design by sdcharle · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    UML - the biggest joke played on management since the 'be just like Japan!' fad of the 80's.

  2. What does Bill Gates know about software? by JackAxe · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    All MS does is copy other companies like Apple, so how do they know where it will be in 10 year? =P