The vision is really about empowering workers, giving them all the information about what's going on so they can do a lot more than they've done in the past. |
The vision is really that in the information age the microprocessor-based machine, the PC, along with great software, can become sort of the ultimate tool dealing with not just text, but numbers and pictures, and eventually, even difficult things lik |
The vision is that people should have the ultimate in convenience. Being able to get the things they care about on the appropriate device. |
The whole idea of the H1-B thing is don't let too many smart people come into the country. Basically, it doesn't make sense. You can't imagine how tough it is to plan as a company where we say, 'Let's have this engineering group and staff it.' You get a few and then you go through these periods where nobody can come in. |
The world will get richer. |
There are a lot of things here that can be beneficial not only to these two companies, but [to other] people working with music. |
There are many years where Waterloo is the university we hire the most people from of any university in the world. Waterloo has always been in the top five every year. |
There are no bugs in any Microsoft software that the majority of users want fixed. |
There are no significant bugs in our released software that any significant number of users want fixed |
There are people who don't like capitalism, and people who don't like PCs. But there's no-one who likes the PC who doesn't like Microsoft. |
There are some architecture changes that need to be made, |
There are some new modern-day sort of communists who want to get rid of the incentive for musicians and moviemakers and software makers under various guises. They don't think that those incentives should exist. |
There are some things that we are always thinking about. For example, when will speech recognition be good enough for everybody to use that? And we have made a lot more progress this year on that. I think we will surprise people a bit on how well we will do on our speech recognition. |
There are still some companies out there based on the old thinking, |
There has never been any discussion about us (buying) any part of a phone company, British Telecom or any other phone company, |