November 8, 2006 at 13:58Gates with us
The official goal of the recent visit of the head of Microsoft to the capital was announced the introduction of a new version of the Windows operating system. Gates' other goals proved themselves during his meetings. So, having finished his speech at the seminar “Innovations and Information Technologies: Global Challenges, Opportunities and Successes of Development”, Gates talked with First Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev and Minister of Information Technologies and Communications Leonid Reiman - without representatives of the press.
According to the "Russian newspaper", discussed the project of creating the Higher Technological School - this institution is designed to become a technological university of international level. “It is very important for us that this university allows us to transfer the experience of the best programmers in the world to the Russian school,” Reiman said. According to him, there are no problems with financing the project in the country - it is more important to be able to ensure the world level of teaching and management at the School. To this, the head of Microsoft replied that he was familiar with examples of the successful implementation of such endeavors - in particular, on the basis of a strategic partnership with leading American universities. For his part, he promised "strategic development assistance".
At a meeting with the Minister of Education Andrei Fursenko, scientists and students, Bill Gates approved the national project "Education", namely, he found positive the intention to connect 52 thousand schools to the Internet. “Connecting all schools to the web is very right, very good,” he said. “Microsoft will do everything to make the software available to all of these schools.”
According to Vedomosti, young Russian scientists showed Gates and Fursenko original educational software products. They asked Gates if he was leaving the business, which he answered in the affirmative - he would do this to focus on educational projects. The richest man on the planet is saddened by the fact that funding for research and development is being reduced everywhere - commercial structures do not increase spending on science, and governments even cut them down because they spend less on defense. “This is one of the reasons Gates is planning to move away from Microsoft’s management in 2008 and take up the activities of his foundation,” confirms Felix Muchnik, chairman of the board of the Association of Independent Software Developers, who attended the meeting.
Kommersantreports that the head of Microsoft is vividly concerned about the state of affairs in the Russian software market. Last year, Microsoft Rus earned $ 258 million in our country, and could have tripled if the level of piracy on operating systems and utilities of the corporation decreased from the current 80% to at least 50%. According to Kommersant's insiders, Gates proposed a specific method to combat piracy - the introduction of Digital Rights Management (DRM) technology as a national standard for protecting digital content, which DRM fully controls the manipulation of. With the introduction of DRM, online stores will need to be equipped with systems that “encrypt” Microsoft-sold files. In addition, all data on the circulation of these files will be transferred to a single identification center of the company. The systems themselves cost about $ 1 million each. Another component of DRM, included in the new Windows Vista operating system will block the playback of files on computers that are not licensed by Microsoft. As a result, the newspaper reports, the user will have to pay for all media files and downloaded software.
Gates also talked about the future of mobile devices, saying that in the next 5-10 years, Microsoft will be combining a PC, a music player, a mobile phone and a camera in one device. Experiments in this area are already underway.
According to the "Russian newspaper", discussed the project of creating the Higher Technological School - this institution is designed to become a technological university of international level. “It is very important for us that this university allows us to transfer the experience of the best programmers in the world to the Russian school,” Reiman said. According to him, there are no problems with financing the project in the country - it is more important to be able to ensure the world level of teaching and management at the School. To this, the head of Microsoft replied that he was familiar with examples of the successful implementation of such endeavors - in particular, on the basis of a strategic partnership with leading American universities. For his part, he promised "strategic development assistance".
At a meeting with the Minister of Education Andrei Fursenko, scientists and students, Bill Gates approved the national project "Education", namely, he found positive the intention to connect 52 thousand schools to the Internet. “Connecting all schools to the web is very right, very good,” he said. “Microsoft will do everything to make the software available to all of these schools.”
According to Vedomosti, young Russian scientists showed Gates and Fursenko original educational software products. They asked Gates if he was leaving the business, which he answered in the affirmative - he would do this to focus on educational projects. The richest man on the planet is saddened by the fact that funding for research and development is being reduced everywhere - commercial structures do not increase spending on science, and governments even cut them down because they spend less on defense. “This is one of the reasons Gates is planning to move away from Microsoft’s management in 2008 and take up the activities of his foundation,” confirms Felix Muchnik, chairman of the board of the Association of Independent Software Developers, who attended the meeting.
Kommersantreports that the head of Microsoft is vividly concerned about the state of affairs in the Russian software market. Last year, Microsoft Rus earned $ 258 million in our country, and could have tripled if the level of piracy on operating systems and utilities of the corporation decreased from the current 80% to at least 50%. According to Kommersant's insiders, Gates proposed a specific method to combat piracy - the introduction of Digital Rights Management (DRM) technology as a national standard for protecting digital content, which DRM fully controls the manipulation of. With the introduction of DRM, online stores will need to be equipped with systems that “encrypt” Microsoft-sold files. In addition, all data on the circulation of these files will be transferred to a single identification center of the company. The systems themselves cost about $ 1 million each. Another component of DRM, included in the new Windows Vista operating system will block the playback of files on computers that are not licensed by Microsoft. As a result, the newspaper reports, the user will have to pay for all media files and downloaded software.
Gates also talked about the future of mobile devices, saying that in the next 5-10 years, Microsoft will be combining a PC, a music player, a mobile phone and a camera in one device. Experiments in this area are already underway.