Bill Gates: next technology level comes from Asia
Bill Gates last week held a conference in Asia, and from that moment he started to spread rumors that Asia will increasingly become a source of technological innovation.
The Microsoft chairman said that the quality of the work being done at Microsoft's research centers in Asia was among the best in the world--to the extent that the company was planning to more than double the staff at its campuses in Beijing and Shanghai.
"And so, not only is Asia benefiting from the use of technology, Asia will be a major source of the breakthroughs and advances in technology," Gates told the annual Boao Forum for Asia on the southern Chinese island of Hainan.
"I think that's true--I think it's amazing that that's so well recognized," he said.
Gates was speaking towards the end of a China trip, during which he announced plans to offer a software package called Microsoft Student Innovation Suite at a cost $3 to governments purchasing and giving Windows-based computers to primary and secondary students.
The initiative is part of Microsoft's goal of doubling the number of computer users to 2 billion by 2015.
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