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Saturday, June 23, 2001
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,5083406,00.html Gates: The next decade is the big one By Reuters May 23, 2001 3:46 PM PT REDMOND, Wash.--The spectacular bursting of the dot-com bubble is not the end of the technology boom, only "the end of the beginning," Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates said Wednesday. "This next decade is the big one. This is the decade when your involvement with computing will be pervasive," Gates told a meeting of about 140 corporate leaders at Microsoft's fifth CEO Summit. Although many dot-coms never lived up to their unrealistic promises, technology will radically improve how many other companies manage data, customers and partners, Gates said. The next few years will see software and the Internet tie together everything from PCs to handheld computers to new devices like the tablet PC, a folder-sized portable computer with a large-screen that can be written on, he said....
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