Tech king targets software 'restraints'. (Bill Gates).(Technology)

National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management, December, 2003 by Trembly, Ara C.

Insurance and other industries are always searching for new and better ways to do business, and, not surprisingly, Microsoft Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates predicts that software advances will lead the way. Delivering the keynote address at this year's Comdex Global Technology Expo in Las Vegas, Mr.

Gates told an audience of several thousand that the industry still needs a platform to enable faster and more efficient commerce and e-commerce. This platform will be built, he noted, on an infrastructure of software that delivers what he called "seamless computing." Mr. Gates focused on various seams or "constraints" that have held back development of a better infrastructure for business. In the 1980s, the problem was that hardware was not...

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