Gates urged the developers attending the conference to dive in early, noting that it is the developers that begin early that will be in a position to capitalize on the rising wave of mobility solutions utilizing Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and cellular data technology like GPRS.
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BILL GATES: "Likewise, you know, we'll have Bluetooth for short area connections. So Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and the pervasive data networks GPRS, 1XRTT, and third generation approaches, all of these need to be made so that the user doesn't have to deal with a lot of the complexity, and right now that complexity is showing through for work to be done at the software layer."
BILL GATES: "All right. As Osh said, we'll be increasing the richness of the platform on an ongoing basis. Tonight is a milestone because of the availability of the Compact Framework. It will be showing up on the Smartphones and more and more people will be putting them into the ROM of the devices. Likewise, we'll provide richer capabilities that will let you get at the messaging activities on the phone, and there's a lot of neat applications that people are talking to us about that require those extensions. So, this next wave, just over the next year or so, we'll be able to satisfy those requests.
Looking out into the future, the richness will get dramatically higher. APIs for the personal information management information using the standard database there. A lot of advances in terms of the graphics that we can do. Better APIs for getting at the Bluetooth, different profiles, more multimedia, also not asking people using C++ to use a special tool, having that more integrated into the Visual Studio environment."
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Gates Urges Developers to Write Pocket PC Apps
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