Gates says hardware will be free
Poster: Aron Schatz
Posted on March 30, 2004 at 4:55:45 PM
In ten years hardware will be free. So Windows will be the major price for a computer costing up to $600 or more to make up the cost. Chips and tangible items have a real world value to make. On the other hand, software is written once and copied again and again.
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"Ten years out, in terms of actual hardware costs, you can almost think of hardware as being free--I'm not saying it will be absolutely free--but in terms of the power of the servers, the power of the network will not be a limiting factor,'' Gates said Monday at a symposium in San Diego, referring to networked computers and advances in the Internet's speed.