Gates: The opportunity for Vista to debut is expected to be ... 80%

Microsoft Chairman "just chilled" the top of the most optimistic people when he thought that only 80% "guaranteed" that Vista would make its debut in January 2007, after a long time of maintenance. they eat.

Speaking to Microsoft software partners in South Africa, Bill Gates said he would continue to move the release date of Vista, if he still found shortcomings and shortcomings in the trial.

Currently, the final beta of Vista has reached the user's hands. In November, a complete version of Vista for business will be released, but Vista's complete user version must wait until early next year. It is if everything goes smoothly according to the route.

" We have to make sure Vista completes 100%. If the feedback from the final beta is not good, Vista is not ready to publish yet. I will . be happy to continue delays ," Gates said.

Source: Fortune Gates said Microsoft invested $ 8-9 billion in the latest development of Vista and Office - two of its key money questions. But Microsoft's software partners will invest more . 20 times this number for developing and applying "follow-up" programs.

Although he is not optimistic about Vista's situation, Gates still hopes that the latest version of Office will be available in December.

" The Vista operating system will be equipped with voice and image recognition tools, which will be backed by tight security measures ," Gates said. " Vista will no longer rely on password mode (which is very easy to break) and switch to digital authentication ."

The largest market for both Vista and Office, soon will be China. According to Gates, China is now the number one mobile phone market in the world and there is no reason for it not to win the top PC, broadband and software market titles in the next few years.

" We all need to be in China. Although only 20% of the population is exposed to IT ," Gates said. Gates also predicts that pirated software in China will weaken, as China increasingly strengthens intellectual property issues.

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