The future in business computing, of course, will be to create documents that are also interactive. So our challenge is to incorporate those innovations in Microsoft Office.
Predictor: Gates, Bill
Prediction, in context:In a 1995 article for Red Herring magazine, Alex S. Vieux interviews Microsoft CEO Bill Gates in Madrid, Spain, at the European Technology Roundtable Exposition. Gates says: ”The future in business computing, of course, will be to create documents that are also interactive. So our challenge is to incorporate those innovations in Microsoft Office … by integrating all of the HTML support and the equivalent of Yahoo! and Lycos into the Office suite, we’ll allow your corporate network to have a super-set of the things that you have on the Internet, making it very easy to move your documents out when you choose to do that.”
Biography:Bill Gates, the most influential technology entrepreneur of the late 20th century, was the primary author of the prediction-packed 1995 book “The Road Ahead” and is the founder and CEO of Microsoft Corporation. (Entrepreneur/Business Leader.)
Date of prediction: October 1, 1995
Topic of prediction: Information Infrastructure
Subtopic: Language/Interface/Software
Name of publication: Red Herring
Title, headline, chapter name: The Once and Future Kings
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://www.redherring.com/mag/issue2.5/once.html
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