Gates: Get Ready for the 'Digital Workstyle'

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In his afternoon keynote, which closed the conference, Gates emphasized the ways that Microsoft is increasingly is integrating its platform, which these days includes not just Windows and .Net, but also Office and the MBS application suites.

Like other Microsoft officials who keynoted here, Gates highlighted Microsoft's five new themes around which it is developing and marketing its integrated environment. These themes, "which we look at for our software development budget," Gates said, are: empowering users; making information more insightful; tightening the connections between applications and systems; creating adaptive processes; and providing the best total cost of ownership.

"Today, work is not as efficient as it can be," Gates said. "Looking ahead, business applications are at the center of the equation. They are the context in which so much is done. We see massive room for innovation."

Although he didn't mention "Project Green," which is Microsoft's vision for how its family of business applications will evolve to better interoperate with Microsoft Office, SQL Server, SharePoint Portal Server and other Microsoft technologies, Gates did demo future versions of three "Greenified" versions of Microsoft's business applications.

MBS managers put Great Plains 8.5, Axapta 3.0 and Microsoft CRM 2.0 through their paces during the course of Gates' speech.

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