In many cases, the user interface to a program is the most important part for a commercial company: whether the programs works correctly or not seems to be secondary.
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The critical thing in developing software is not the program, it's the design. It is translating understanding of user needs into something that can be realized as a computer program.
We have most of the software industry running Autonomy.
In short, software is eating the world.
As far as the customer is concerned, the interface is the product.
In almost every job now, people use software and work with information to enable their organisation to operate more effectively.
There's a fundamental problem with how the software business does things. We're asking people who are masters of hard-edged technology to design the soft, human side of software as well. As a result, they make products that are really cool - if you happen to be a software engineer.
Most of the effort in the software business goes into the maintenance of code that already exists.
On the back end, software programming tools and Internet-based services make it easy to launch new global software-powered start-ups in many industries - without the need to invest in new infrastructure and train new employees.
What we believe is going to be very important is the delivery of traditional software and services and hardware over the Net. That's a form of electronic marketplace.
Windows is probably the most important product in the entire PC industry. Everything we do in terms of supporting touch, new hardware, accessibility has incredible impact.
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