Speaking to more than 100 CEOs gathered at Microsoft's Redmond, Washington State headquarters, for the 10th annual Microsoft CEO Summit, Microsoft Corp. Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates on Wednesday said trends in the “new world of work” create a need for companies to rethink how employees find, analyze and act on vital corporate information. Gates described how current and future Microsoft offerings address the key issues of information overload and information “underload” – the difficulty employees face trying to act on information once they have found it.
Microsoft asserts that although finding information and people through powerful search tools is critical to enabling information workers to more effectively do their job, the intelligent enterprise requires secure, customizable solutions that help their employees collaborate and act on information to drive business success.
