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Bill Gates Promises Windows 7 Will Be Less of a Resource Hog

There are few details, but indicates the direction in which Microsoft supports the development of Windows-7, and the operating system, incidentally. Nevertheless, the president of Microsoft Bill Gates is believed to be Windows 7, less than a resource of pigs than its predecessor, although such a comparison can not be used on speculation and not declared. On 7 May 2008, one day after the company fell from Redmond SP3 for Windows XP via Windows Update and the Download Center, Gates was in Tokyo, Japan, the digital lifestyle and Windows Consortium pointed out that there is an accent to play 7 Windows and with less physical storage system.

I am very excited about the ongoing work. The ability to lower energy, use less memory, more efficient and have more connections with the mobile phone, these scenarios, a connection that you have a great platform for the best game that you can do to the matter via the Internet, so that for example, when you have two PCs that your files are automatically synchronized between them, and so you have not much to demand.

In CES 2008, Gates has refused to ask a question that the Microsoft software product developed wanted before releasing to the market. At this point, Microsoft co-founder said only that he had a response; the next version of Windows client becomes available. According to the latest details, Gates, Microsoft Windows Vista Windows 7, which never managed to go yet to make environmentally friendly, offer higher performance and even swallow less RAM. Of course, is also the Windows PC 7 for Windows 7 PC gateways come courtesy MESH Live, Microsoft has recently clouds platform for synchronization.

It is clear that we all would love it if people had more PC average, and so, that this is so simple is important. The pressure upgrade, I think this is an area we have a lot of Comments in Vista, we need to invest and we will be in this very, very easy for people. So, Vista is doing well, and we are the hard work, more investment in version comes later now, Gates added.

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DreamSpark - Free Software from Microsoft !

Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition - free. Expression Studio - for free. Visual Studio 2008 Professional Edition - free. It seems too good to be true, but it is the exception that proves the rule. Dream Spark Microsoft is an initiative by the company from Redmond to "inspire success, to distinguish" while at the same time, "about the imagination and the career of the students of today." With Dream Spark, Microsoft offers to students from around the world access to the software for professional developers and designers of resources. Initially the program will be available, and 35 million students in Belgium, China, Germany, Finland, France, Germany, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom and the USA

"We want to do our utmost to deal with a new generation of leaders in technology
The knowledge and the tools they need to access the magic of software for the improvement of living conditions, problems to solve, and as a catalyst for economic growth, "said Gates." Dream Spark Microsoft offers tools for professional use, which, we hope, to inspire students to explore the power of the software and encouraging forge in the next wave of software with a focus on the discovery."

But the company from Redmond is in any case limited to 35 million students. According to Microsoft, Dream Spark will slow to students, new markets by 2008 Australia, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Slovakia and other countries in the Americas, Asia and Europe. In the third quarter of 2008, Microsoft will also for the inclusion of students in the secondary Dream Spark.

The program includes Dream Spark Visual Studio 2005 Professional Edition, Visual Studio 2008 Professional Edition; XNA Game Studio 2.0; costs 12 months, a member of the Academic XNA Creators Club; Expression Web, expression blend, expression of design; Expression Media; SQL Server 2005 Developer Edition and Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition.

"Student identity is determined by the two institutions, the public order or even of systems for the identification of partners who directly with Microsoft for the process of the review. You transmit binary file a simple" yes "or" no "to the admissibility. It is important that the students and the universities retain full control over the transaction. Microsoft is not a party to any personal information about the students - Protecting your privacy is of great importance for us. Once we receive the verification of eligibility, they can Procedures for checking on future visits to the website for downloading Spark Dream, "Joe Wilson, and Microsoft Senior Director of Academic Initiatives.

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World's richest? Gates may have cashed it in

After 13 years as the world's richest person, Bill Gates appears to have been dethroned. But there will probably be no sobbing inside his Medina estate.

In his own words:
Bill Gates on the pitfalls of being the world's richest man:

In fact, based on his past remarks, the Microsoft Corp. chairman might welcome the news.

Mexican telecommunications tycoon Carlos Slim has taken the crown with a net worth of $67.8 billion, according to estimates by a respected financial news site in Mexico, as reported by multiple news services.

The main reason: a 27 percent surge in the stock price of Slim's wireless company, America Movil, in the second quarter.

At a Microsoft conference in Redmond last year, advertising executive and TV host Donny Deutsch asked Gates if he would be upset if someday he were no longer the world's richest man.

"I wish I wasn't," Gates replied. "There's nothing good that comes out of that."

"It's better than being second," Deutsch said.

"No," Gates replied. "You get more visibility as a result of it."

Slim's new standing might not be considered official until the next publication of Forbes' ranking of the world's richest people.

On this spring's Forbes list, Slim was just behind investor Warren Buffett, the chief executive of Berkshire Hathaway, who had been second on the list for years.

In April, after the publication of the official 2007 list, Forbes reported that Slim had surpassed Buffett to become the world's second-richest man. At the time, Forbes reported that Slim was "breathtakingly close" to passing Gates for the No. 1 spot. Gates' estimated worth was $56 billion at the time.

For the latest estimate of Slim's worth, Reuters quoted financial tracker Eduardo Garcia, from Sentido Comun, an online financial publication in Mexico. Garcia estimates that Gates is currently worth $59.2 billion.

According to an Associated Press report from Mexico City, Garcia's estimate of Gates' wealth was based on a 5.7 percent increase in Microsoft shares in the second quarter, and doesn't include Gates' sizable holdings apart from Microsoft shares.

"But a 26 percent growth rate for a world company like America Movil, that's hard to top for one quarter," Garcia said, according to the AP report.

Gates has put a total of more than $30 billion into the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, reducing his personal net worth. Slim recently told The New York Times that he plans to boost the endowments of his companies' foundations to $10 billion in the next four years, from the current total of $4 billion.

Slim, meanwhile, seems just about as interested in holding the "world's richest" title as Gates was. The AP quoted Slim's spokesman as saying, "As he has said many times himself, he is not in any competition."

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