Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Microsoft's Mundie talks up tech for poor nations

Microsoft's and are poised to take over more than of Bill Gates' engineering function after the Microsoft president stairway away from day-to-day work at the
company in July.

One of the first alterations for Mundie, the head research and scheme officer, is leading Microsoft's , which includes the company's work for the development human race as well as its philanthropy. The occupation should maintain Mundie in close
contact with Gates, since the co-founder's going is meant to give him more than clip at the , which also works on engineering enterprises aimed at helping developing nations.

IDG News Service talked to Mundie at Microsoft's 2008 last hebdomad about possible alterations at Unlimited Potential, and what Microsoft is doing to make new engineering for people
in the development world.

IDGNS: Since Unlimited Potential is under you now, what makes that average for the group? More money, more than attention?

Mundie: No. The recent determination to set it in my grouping is really just so that I can supply some consistent inadvertence to it. In a way, I helped make the Unlimited Potential Group respective old age ago and we had housed it within one of the business
divisions and a figure of executive directors were providing inadvertence to it.

The other existent ground to set it in my grouping is because the other two new concerns I've got in my grouping are wellness and education
and when we look at what the Unlimited Potential demands are, yes one constituent of it is to let people to be productive, but
almost invariably the other two legs of that stool are wellness attention and education.

IDGNS: Bashes your early work at Microsoft's non-PC division aid with your function in Unlimited Potential?

Mundie: No, not really -- except for the cell phone. The work that I did with Windows Mobile River and the cell telephone material I think
have carried forward today and makes give us a footing for adapting cell telephone engineerings to the Unlimited Potential social class of
opportunities. Interactive television may be another 1 that may ultimately play a function here.

IDGNS: What are some schemes you have got for Unlimited Potential? What engineerings will you concentrate on?

Mundie: When you believe about people with small or no disposable income and how to near that market, it's unclutter that you
can't travel at it with the thought that they just run out and purchase personal computing machines or that we're going to give them all one. And
so a batch of our focusing have been on trying to take engineerings that are derived from the planetary scale of measurement usage of PCs and assist build
both less expensive devices and software system that's More purpose-built relative to the demands of those sorts of customers.

The other thing that's A large factor of course of study is the cell phone. We're compensate at the point now where all telephones will travel from
dense to smart. And I believe that's A major focusing for us in footing of how we can convey entree to the Internet and some of these
technologies, particularly around wellness care, to this rural mediocre population. That coupled with online services and more than sophisticated
software. My dreaming is that we really can acquire to the point where it really is do-it-yourself medicine and, to a certain extent,
do-it-yourself education. I don't see a manner where the human race is going to scale up traditional conceptions of wellness and education
for another four and a one-half billion people. Even the United States, which is the wealthiest state in the world, still doesn't
have got a program to supply wellness attention to its ain citizens, allow alone another four to five billion. Continued1 | | | »

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