I want to see us remain convinced that software matters in the future.
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From day one our next generation system will run all our exsisting software - so that gives us a head start.
In short, software is eating the world.
We're entering a new world in which data may be more important than software.
Companies in every industry need to assume that a software revolution is coming.
My own theory is that we are in the middle of a dramatic and broad technological and economic shift in which software companies are poised to take over large swathes of the economy.
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.
Over the next 10 years, I expect many more industries to be disrupted by software, with new world-beating Silicon Valley companies doing the disruption in more cases than not.
The future lies in designing and selling computers that people don't realize are computers at all.
If we see an opportunity in the software/hardware seam, we're going to take it.
When Paul Allen and I started Microsoft over 30 years ago, we had big dreams about software. We had dreams about the impact it could have.
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