\paperw8325 \margr0\margl0\ATXph0 \plain \fs20 \f1 In his keynote address to the largest ever Comdex audience, Bill Gates, predicted the increasing power of the PC for home and business users world-wide. \par
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More than 7,000 Comdex delegates crammed in to hear Gatesí vision
of the future: how PCs will become more powerful yet simpler to use, even more economical to buy and run in the long term. According to Gates, future PCs will feature one terabyte hard disks (one million megabytes), process over 1 billion transactions a
day and, thanks to the miniaturisation of the microprocessor, will fit in the back of aeroplane seats and a variety of small devices. \par
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Microsoft will concentrate on developing auto install features for software, better directory structures fo
r PCs and Intranets and the Internet, as well as versions of Windows that cost nothing to administer. Future releases of Windows and Windows NT will be the first operating systems to offer homes and businesses ìzero administrationî, Gates told the packed
house. These intelligent operating systems will automatically know when a new upgrade or driver becomes available and will automatically look on the network server, or the Internet if necessary, download the code and install the software itself. Zero ad
ministration operating systems could even diagnose their own technical problems to Microsoft or engineers and ask to be fixed. Gates said it was also only a matter of time before PCs could watch what we do and react accordingly.\par
