Thus spoke Bill Gates
Bill Gates often makes speeches and below is an excerpt from one that I found interesting. Can you guess when this speech was made? I can’t give any prizes for correct guesses because it’d be too easy to look it up on Google. I’ll give the reference tomorrow but in the meantime play along and pick the approximate date when you think Bill Gates said the excerpt below:
Gates, in his role as Microsoft’s chief software architect, rolled out a retooled company strategy that would integrate its software with the Internet and make it easier to swap information between computing devices. Among the prototypes were computers that recognize voice and can answer back, a digital book and notepad that can recognize natural handwriting and connect to the Web, and cell phones that let users dictate email.
“The Internet is the starting point,” said Gates, and the Web browser is the “universal canvas” upon which the information landscape will be painted.
“It’s a bet-the-company thing,” Gates said, speaking to several hundred analysts….
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