Microsoft Corp chairman and chief executive Bill Gates predicted better days for his company as the industry focuses on new interactive technologies, despite pressures on short-term profit margins, Reuter reports from Toronto, where he was speaking on information age technology at Ryerson Polytechnic University: asked if his company has peaked, Gates said: If you don’t believe in the digital highway and that computers will get faster… then our best days are behind us and long live the buggy whip; Gates estimates that the worldwide information technology market exceeds $1,000,000m and he expects it to more than double by year 2000.
