Gates: Asia to spawn tech breakthroughs

Microsoft chief Bill Gates tells a tech forum audience in China that his own reincarnation is likely to emerge from Asia.

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[Maccess]

Really?

You mean Asians are at the forefront of technology?

When did you realize this? Yesterday?

Did it just dawn on you that it might be better to work with Asians to create your next breakthroughs rather than trying to hold back Asian Tech growth by persistently complaining about Asian software piracy?

Sure, piracy is a bad thing, but there are better ways than sending jackbooted thugs to fight piracy, like using all that hacking talent to create better products.

[Commander_Spock]

What....

... do you get from "pirating" crapware -- more crapware in the world market place. If ASIA wishes to demonstrate to the world that it is worth its salt than show the world it can develop "its own software products"--but then again with EUROPE likely to be in the OLYMPICS "style" Software Competition EUROPE may very well be the other formidable contender to be watched.

[t8]

The next Microsoft is Google

Google will be bigger than Microsoft could ever have imagined because the PC ecosystem is very small compared to the Web.

[Commander_Spock]

And, The "Next" Generation...

... will see the re-birth of "OS/2 WARP" as VOYAGER and CASINNI - TO BOLDLY GO!!

[michaelo1966]

I agree

Not sure I've ever written an I agree comment before but that sums things up. Google is a better company. Gates had everything -- especially lawyer-daddy -- helping him when MS got going. Brin/Page were the opposite: they were semi-broke engineers who built momentum in the middle of the dot-com bust but went on to build a great company.

Asia ... ? Maybe. Last I checked most substantial engineering -- though not production (thanks Republicans!) -- was in the US. Japan makes some good games, and the Wii is brilliant. Then again, the PS3 is also Japanese. The old impossible-to-program VCR's were Asian design; Tivo is US-engineering. Microsoft tried programming a large part of Vista in India: the result speaks for itself.