Oliver Bell’s Weblog

A few months from now we will see Bill Gates balance his priorities to focus on his philanthropic efforts, and take more of a back seat at Microsoft.

At that time his role will be divided up between Ray Ozzie and Craig Mundie. Craig’s title will be Chief Strategy and Research Officer, and Ray will be Chief Software Architect.

Craig was in Australia this week and took some time out to discuss some of the issues that he is currently thinking about with APCMAG.COM, the resulting article shares some insight into the long term picture that Craig sees for the industry and for Microsoft. The article discusses future versions of Windows, multicore computing, Linux, the Microsoft Home of the Future and of course touches on Open XML standardization.

From the article;

One of the things that is changing over the next five to 10 years is that the industry will fundamentally change the architecture of the microprocessor and with that will create a new level of capability in these machines.

I think it is likely that in that time horizon that the current price and power levels that we think of as today’s microprocessors, are likely be 50 or even 100 times more powerful.