No single system going down will bring the system down. Speech recognition software will form an important part of the new shape of the PC, said Gates. The new experience will involve the camera. This new approach is as revolutionary as the transition from DOS to Windows. Many people said the the graphics approach was not the right approach because it slowed down the computer.
People say the same thing about speech recognition software.
He said that people will look back at today's PC and wonder why they were so clunky. People would wonder why there was a need for boot time. Microsoft's vision 25 years ago was to have a PC in every desktop and every home. That vision lasted until a year ago, but now we think about the person. Microsoft will build XML not only into its applications but into future versions of its language packages such as C and Visual Basic, with backward compatibility.