Even after all his triumphs, Bill Gates is still a gambling man.
In some of the most difficult economic periods in high technology's history, the chairman and chief software architect of Microsoft appears undeterred in doing what he has done best: selling Windows. This week, Microsoft launched a developer version of Longhorn, its next operating system. Gates says Longhorn, which is expected to be released in 2006, will spawn an array of new applications not possible with previous generations of Windows while making entire infrastructures work better. To address those questions and other difficult issues, CNET News.com's Mike Ricciuti spoke to Gates on the first day of his company's software developers conference.
Q: Several years ago, many analysts believed that we had seen the last large monolithic operating system releases from Microsoft. Given Longhorn, did they just get it wrong, or has there been a change in thinking within Microsoft?
A: Well, this isn't monolithic. I mean, believe me, there is an architecture here that is extremely componentized and broken down into pieces.
News source: C|Net News.com
