Software hasn't kept up with advances in hardware, according to Bill Gates.
Microsoft's Chairman and chief software architect closed the company's annual Convergence Conference on Wednesday with a look at coming enhancements for the business software line.
Gates told the audience of customers and partners of Microsoft Business Solutions (MBS) that the digital lifestyle and its enterprise counterpart, the so-called "digital workstyle," are being held up by the software.
He noted that advances including 64-bit computing, broadband and Wi-Fi connectivity and disk capacity are dropping in price. " All of these things set us up so that software is really the only limiting factor in terms of the ease of use, the security, the willingness to dive in and take advantage of that," he said.
It's not so bad on the consumer side, according to Gates, where software gets updated annually or even every six months, because there aren't as many compatibility issues as in business.
