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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. In related news: by Big+Nothing · · Score: 0, Redundant

    640K ought to be enough for anybody.

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  2. My prediction... by jvollmer · · Score: 0, Redundant
    Ten years out, Microsoft will be a shadow of its
    former self, and Gates & Ballmer will be
    wondering what the hell happened.

    If it's not Consolidated Lint, it's just fuzz!

  3. Re:Product costings from richest man in world? by ultrabot · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Somehow I don't think I will be taking Bill's word for it...

    Why not? 640k ought to be enough for everybody...

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