[tobyhill]

Is it going to cook my dinner?

[the_devils_advocate_666]

Just let me know when high speed internet is available at my house (satellite connection does not count).

[Red Badger]

...the software mogul and philanthropist told Lee at the start of their meeting at the presidential Blue House...

[Izzy Dunne]

"The Internet has been operating now for 10 years," Gates said.

Billy boy, you just don't get it, do you?

Microsoft didn't invent the Internet in 1998...

[Enchante]

"The Internet has been operating now for 10 years," Gates said.

???? I suppose he's speaking very loosely of the mass audience on the WorldWideWeb, but that is an extraordinarily inaccurate statement for a leading digital technologist to utter. The web has been around for 15 years and the "Internet" goes back decades, which he knows very well. So he must mean by "Internet" the mass phenomenon of tens and then hundreds of millions of people on the web.

[KarlInOhio]

"The Internet has been operating now for 10 years," Gates said. "The second 10 years will be very different."

Internet Explorer 1.0 was released in 1995, 13 years ago. I guess it just displayed an hourglass for the first three years until the Internet was started ten years ago.

[B Knotts]

Gates added that "natural interaction" between hardware and software was finally becoming possible

[Fresh Wind]

Imagine having to reboot your car while it’s stopped dead in the middle of a busy intersection!

[steve-b]

The Internet has generally been an area where Microsoft has been reduced to playing catch-up. What makes anybody think that Bill Gates has any particularly valuable insights about its future?

[wastedyears]

As long as he or Microsoft are not in any way involved in it, it won’t die within a week.

[Aristotelian]

Microsoft and Gates were late to the Internet party. Did he mention that, too?

[ShadowAce]

[HAL9000]

January 2004 - Spam Will Be 'Solved' In 2 Years -- Bill Gates

[Resolute Conservative]

Why not invest here? Oh wait he can pay 4.00 an hour over there and they steal our technology anyway.

[Republicus2001]

Huh? Only ten years? Where’s he been?

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

The Internet has been operating now for 10 years,” Gates said. “The second 10 years will be very different.”

Leaving aside the question of how long said internet has been operating, this statement leaves me breathless in terms of its going way out on a limb? Going to be very different? Do tell, Billy. I coulda told ya that - where’s my 50 billion?

[Da Coyote]

Yeh, the net’s going to improve by orders of magnitude as soon as we successfully remove all malware (read Microsoftware) from it. Step one is proceeding, Microsoft has demonstrated it’s inability to dance with Vista. Their next stumble shojld be fun to watch.

[Lord_Calvinus]

Is there going to be a “punish” button added to Outlook so I can shock all my friends that spam me with crap every day until they quit sending me stuff embedded with malware and giving my name to mass spammers?

That would be handy if you ask me.

[Gaffer]

This from an entrepreneur who had nothing to do with the invention of the internet and the facilitator of a product that has managed to infest the home and business computing world with a series of products that don't work together, blows up, hangs up, locks up, and generally pisses you off endlessly with questions about "Are you sure you want to doe this?" "Do you really want to do this?" "This will delete your file!" ...." You can't get it back" (Well, you can but good luck finding where it is..... and so on....

Just a dweeb with too much money and a desperate need to feel really relevant...

[LexBaird]

Boy, Gates is really going out on a limb here. He’s a regular Madame Cleo.

“The second 10 years will be very different.”

“We’re doing some very interesting work on automobile software. That’s a really wide open area where some very exiting [sic] things will come out of.”

“We can expect that the variety and quality of software will accelerate in the years ahead.”

... citing as an example speech commands to computers.

“The whole environment will be very, very different,” he said.