 | Looking ahead: The Digital Decade "In the Digital Decade, you'll no longer think of the PC as a tool you use only to carry out specific tasks ® it will become something you come to rely on all the time. The power of the PC will be as ubiquitous and reliable as electricity, and vastly more useful than any single device we use today."
—Bill Gates, Chairman and Chief Software Architect, from Moving into the Digital Decade
Ever wonder what your office will look like in 10 years? Or your child's school? What about your home, especially the spaces where you work and relax?
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Shaping tomorrow's technology todayImagine being able to move seamlessly between these experiences, choosing and carrying the information you care most about with you — from work to home to anywhere you go. Today, ideas like these are already helping shape tomorrow's technology: | • | At the Center for Information Work, for example, Microsoft and partners such as Sony, Acer, and Intel are experimenting with a hands-on "office of the future" that explores ways software and computers may help us be more productive at work and home.
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| • | Within our research and product development groups, we're working to reduce the complexity that IT professionals face every day with new features that will make system maintenance easier.
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| • | New business solutions coming from Microsoft and our partners will offer improved real-time information exchange, supply-chain integration, and electronic payment systems.
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Your potential, our passionThe innovations of the coming decade will transform the way the PC fits into our lives and the way we think about computing. It will be a time of enormous opportunity: for consumers, for businesses of all sizes, for the technology industry, and for Microsoft as we realize the vision of empowering people through great software — any time, any place, on any device. At Microsoft, we create software that empowers people and businesses to realize their full potential. It's not just our purpose. It's our passion. | |
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