Gates Promises Interoperable Software

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Gates: Microsoft Will Build
Interoperable Software By Design

Gates: Microsoft Will Build
Interoperable Software By Design 02/05/2005 09:46 PM
In an email to business chiefs made public today, Bill Gates, Chairman of Microsoft, discussed the companies plans to make their software more interoperable with other systems.

"Interoperability is more pragmatic than other approaches, such as attempting to make all systems compatible at the code level, focusing solely on adding new layers of middleware that try to make all systems look and act the same, or seeking to make different systems interchangeable. With a common understanding of basic protocols, different software can interact smoothly with little or no specific knowledge of each other. The Internet is perhaps the most obvious example of this kind of interoperability, where any piece of software can connect and exchange data as long as it adheres to the key protocols.

Simply put, interoperability is a proven approach for dealing with the diversity and heterogeneity of the marketplace. Today I want to focus on two major thrusts of Microsoft’s product interoperability strategy: First, we continue to support customers’ needs for software that works well with what they have today. Second, we are working with the industry to define a new generation of software and Web services based on eXtensible Markup Language (XML), which enables software to efficiently share information and opens the door to a greater degree of "interoperability by design" across many different kinds of software.

Our goal is to harness all the power inherent in modern (and not so modern) business software, and enable them to work together so that the whole is greater than the sum of the parts. We want to further eliminate friction among heterogeneous architectures and applications without compromising their distinctive underlying capabilities."

Gates continued to talk about how Microsoft planned to implement these ideas, and how it already had; Gates pointed to Office 2003 as an example of the company making use of XML technology. He also made the point that "interoperability is also confused with open source software". Microsoft face tough competition from Linux based products which are open source and allow users to modify the underlying system code. Part of the recent European Union judgement on Microsoft involved making the company make it easier for other software vendors to inter opt with their products. Previous messages from Gates delivered in a similar manner have proved to be major policy changes for Microsoft.

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Gates dishes out security promises

Gates dishes out security promises 06/28/2004 10:11 AM
Chairman says Microsoft will reduce the security updates required for Windows releases and will convince consumers to turn on auto-update.

Microsoft to boost R&D in China, Gates
promises

Microsoft to boost R&D in China, Gates
promises 07/04/2004 12:09 PM
Manila Times Jul 4 2004 2:50PM GMT

Gates Promises Longhorn Beta In 2005
Despite Security

Gates Promises Longhorn Beta In 2005
Despite Security 05/04/2004 07:33 PM

Gates Promises Longhorn Beta In 2005
Despite Security Concerns

Gates Promises Longhorn Beta In 2005
Despite Security Concerns 05/05/2004 07:43 PM

Bill Gates promises more Microsoft
muscle for entertainment media

Bill Gates promises more Microsoft
muscle for entertainment media 01/06/2005 08:48 AM
Computer Shopper Jan 6 2005 1:12PM GMT

Software promises to read want-ads for
you

Software promises to read want-ads for
you 09/21/2004 07:00 PM
Tired of combing the Net for the right tech job? A start-up says its program can do it--and better than online job boards.

Software promises painless VoIP set-up

Software promises painless VoIP set-up 08/02/2004 03:50 PM
Tools automate home installation of Net-based phone calls and video broadcasts. It could give some English to broadband triple-plays.

Gates Hails Software Advances

Gates Hails Software Advances 07/29/2004 05:07 PM
Microsoft's chairman discusses recent software innovations and tells analysts that big breakthroughs are in store for PC users in the coming years.

Gates Touts 'Modeling' Era For Software

Gates Touts 'Modeling' Era For Software 07/29/2004 08:17 PM
Microsoft talks up current products as well as its research pipeline at its annual analyst day. Microsoft to Address Growth Questions

Gates calls for more software research

Gates calls for more software research 08/02/2004 03:50 PM
Microsoft's chairman says computer science is where it's at. It's also where a new $1 million research fund's at.

Gates calls for 64-bit software support

Gates calls for 64-bit software support 05/04/2004 04:46 PM
Microsoft's Bill Gates sees widespread use of powerful 64-bit chips in the near future--but not if hardware makers don't get to work on the drivers that will bring that power to the desktop.

Promises, Promises: Microsoft's
Credibility Questioned Over Longhorn

Promises, Promises: Microsoft's
Credibility Questioned Over Longhorn 09/04/2004 08:50 PM
Partners are accustomed to product delays out of Redmond, but some say this latest slip of the storage system, code-named WinFS, combined with well-publicized delays to Yukon, is snowballinginto a tremendous credibility problem. By Barbara Darrow and Paula Rooney, CRN (via MyAppleMenu)

Gates unveils junk e-mail software

Gates unveils junk e-mail software 11/17/2003 11:36 AM
Boston Globe Nov 17 2003 10:22AM ET

Gates touts security software at Comdex

Gates touts security software at Comdex 11/17/2003 11:34 AM
Silicon.com Nov 17 2003 9:52AM ET

Microsoft's Gates vows 'interoperable'
software

Microsoft's Gates vows 'interoperable'
software 02/05/2005 08:59 PM
In a lengthy letter to customers yesterday, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates spelled out a new mission for his company's software: better interoperability.

Gates Foresees Seamless Software Links
(AP)

Gates Foresees Seamless Software Links
(AP) 01/28/2004 08:51 AM
AP - Microsoft founder Bill Gates expressed his vision Wednesday for a future in which advanced software will seamlessly connect personal computers with mobile phones, watches and other small devices.

Gates Foresees Seamless Software Links

Gates Foresees Seamless Software Links 01/28/2004 10:17 AM
Microsoft founder Bill Gates expressed his vision Wednesday for a future in which advanced software will seamlessly connect personal computers with mobile phones, watches and other small devices. The software, which Gates predicted would be widespread by the end of this decade, would also be smart enough to let users know if and when it should alert them -- and on which device -- with new information such as weather forecasts or sports scores.

Microsoft's Gates Vows 'Interoperable'
Software (Reuters)

Microsoft's Gates Vows 'Interoperable'
Software (Reuters) 02/05/2005 09:41 PM
Reuters - Microsoft Corp. adopted a new mantra on Thursday, promising to work harder to make its software work better with other software systems and hardware, Chairman Bill Gates said in an e-mail to customers.

Video: Gates touts security software at
Comdex

Video: Gates touts security software at
Comdex 11/17/2003 09:13 AM
ZDNet Nov 17 2003 8:18AM ET

Bill Gates Says Microsoft to Explore
Cheap Software with Asian Govts

Bill Gates Says Microsoft to Explore
Cheap Software with Asian Govts 06/29/2004 08:53 AM
eWeek Jun 29 2004 1:31PM GMT

Parallel Programming with Interoperable
MPI

Parallel Programming with Interoperable
MPI 04/14/2004 09:11 PM
DDJ Apr 15 2004 1:24AM GMT

Interoperable e-government Services (IDA
II)

Interoperable e-government Services (IDA
II) 11/11/2003 12:54 PM
European Parliament Nov 11 2003 11:34AM ET

Interoperable e-government Services

Interoperable e-government Services 11/18/2003 02:01 PM
European Parliament Nov 18 2003 12:57PM ET

E-Gif aims to make government
interoperable

E-Gif aims to make government
interoperable 05/12/2004 08:21 AM
ZDNet UK May 12 2004 12:16PM GMT

First fully interoperable products out
this year

First fully interoperable products out
this year 09/03/2004 06:48 AM
Computer Weekly Sep 3 2004 11:14AM GMT

Vodafone, Verizon Wireless now
SMS-interoperable

Vodafone, Verizon Wireless now
SMS-interoperable 12/23/2003 09:36 AM
infoSync Dec 23 2003 8:30AM ET

Meru Demonstrates Interoperable VoIP
over Wi-Fi (TechWeb)

Meru Demonstrates Interoperable VoIP
over Wi-Fi (TechWeb) 05/15/2004 04:27 AM
TechWeb - Thanks to Meru's virtual access points, Cisco's Wi-Fi phones can work without Aironet hardware.

Interoperable apocalypse: sf story about
devices that come to life

Interoperable apocalypse: sf story about
devices that come to life 02/05/2005 09:25 PM
Cory Doctorow: SF writer Paul DiFilippo has a wonderful story on SciFi.com called And the Dish Ran Away With the Spoon that's funny, dirty, and technologically prescient. It concerns itself with "blebs" -- composite gadget made byt he spontaneous merging of smart household objects that are a little too interoperable.

The Volition Bug was launched anonymously from a site somewhere in a Central Asian republic. It propagated wirelessly among all the WiFi-communicating chipped objects, installing new directives in their tiny brains, directives that ran covertly in parallel with their normal factory-specified functions. Infected objects now sought to link their processing power with their nearest peers, often achieving surprising levels of Turingosity, and then to embark on a kind of independent communal life. Of course, once the Volition Bug was identified, antiviral defenses—both hardware and software—were attempted against it. But VB mutated ferociously, aided and abetted by subsequent hackers.

If this "Consciousness Wavefront" had occurred in the olden days of dumb materials, blebs would hardly have been an issue. What could antique manufactured goods achieve, anchored in place as they were? But things were different today.

Most devices nowadays were made with MEMS skins. Their surfaces were interactive, practically alive, formed of zillions of invisible actuators, the better to sample the environment and accommodate their shapes and textures to their owners' needs and desires, and to provide haptic feedback. Like the paws of geckos, these MEMS surfaces could bind to dumb materials and to other MEMS skins via the Van der Waals force, just as a gecko could skitter across the ceiling.

Link (Thanks, Steve!)

Microsoft Aims To Make Windows PKI, RMS
Certificates Interoperable

Microsoft Aims To Make Windows PKI, RMS
Certificates Interoperable 05/20/2004 05:47 AM
As Microsoft works to get the Windows client and server security packs out the door, it's also pushing the software's existing authentication and access control facilities--namely, public key infrastructure (PKI) and digital rights management services (RMS)--to get customers to batten down the hatches.

Coming Soon: Ultra-Fast, Interoperable
Wireless Routers

Coming Soon: Ultra-Fast, Interoperable
Wireless Routers 12/08/2003 07:17 PM
PC Magazine Dec 8 2003 5:57PM ET

Using open source tools to build
interoperable Web services

Using open source tools to build
interoperable Web services 09/08/2004 12:36 PM
XML and Web services have been touted for years as the new lingua franca for application development, destined to transform the way companies conduct business and communicate. Lingua franca, or "bastardized French," was a pidgin or trade language used a couple of hundred years ago by various language communities around the Mediterranean to communicate with others whose language they didn't speak.

Microsoft China has announced that Bill
Gates, chairman of software giant
Microsoft Corporation, is slated to

Microsoft China has announced that Bill
Gates, chairman of software giant
Microsoft Corporation, is slated to 06/15/2004 10:38 PM
Xinhua News Agency Jun 16 2004 2:47AM GMT

Context Connect Participates in the
National Demonstration of Interoperable
Emergency Communications with Comcare

Context Connect Participates in the
National Demonstration of Interoperable
Emergency Communications with Comcare 04/18/2005 02:41 AM
Context Connect Participates in the National Demonstration of Interoperable Emergency Communications with Comcare [PRWEB Apr 18, 2005]

"A post about bill gates somehow fools a
whole lot of people into believing bill
gates posted the story, or is at least
reading the comments with rapt
interest."

"A post about bill gates somehow fools a
whole lot of people into believing bill
gates posted the story, or is at least
reading the comments with rapt
interest." 04/16/2004 08:49 AM

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Solution--Empowers your CRM Software and
fill your CRM Software with contact
management relationships.

Broadlook--#1 CRM Software
Solution--Empowers your CRM Software and
fill your CRM Software with contact
management relationships. 06/18/2004 03:03 AM
Whichever CRM software your company uses, you need to look at the Broadlook Suite of Software which should seamlessly integrate with whichever CRM software you are using. BroadLook is an integrated set of applications designed to harness the Internet as a powerful real-time data source--the data from which can be exported into your CRM software. [PRWEB Jun 18, 2004]

he keeps his promises

he keeps his promises 09/08/2004 03:21 AM
can fulfill

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It Knows All Your Passwords (But
Promises Not to Tell)

It Knows All Your Passwords (But
Promises Not to Tell) 01/22/2004 02:12 AM
Passwords that are nonintuitive enough to keep private information private can be a bother if you routinely visit secure Web sites (for shopping online, say) or if you use computers that are accessible to others. Passwords should be both irregular and complex, but irregular, complex combinations of letters and numbers are hard to remember.

What Google promises us

What Google promises us 12/19/2004 03:06 PM
An infinite library, full of everything that is, and will be. Prepare to be overwhelmed.
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