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Tuesday, October 16, 2001
http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/01/10/16/011016hngatesspeech.xml Gates upbeat on PC industry future By Martyn Williams TOKYO -- SLOWING world economies and the knock-on effects of the September terrorist attacks in the U.S. could impact the PC business in the short-term, but long-term prospects are bright, said Bill Gates, chairman and chief software architect of Microsoft Corp., speaking Tuesday in Tokyo. "There could be a period of time here where the kind of somberness that comes with this tragedy affects business," he said, referring to the U.S. terrorist attacks. "I'm not somebody who can predict that. However, I can say that, already as the economy was slowing down, Microsoft was one of the few companies that was able to continue to increase our R&D on products such as tablet PC, speech recognition, Xbox or Pocket PC."...
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