Gates successors 10 for Chinese students

22 April, hosted by Microsoft Research Asia open to the future of the "dream", Gates successors g Regal ·

Mondi and thousands of Chinese students and expand dialogue, which lasted an hour devoted to answer a question, exploration technology site in the future as well as Microsoft's innovative trends. In the meantime, Microsoft Research Asia, President of Hsiao-wuen Hon conveyed to Mr. mundie SINA Netizen, Mr. mundie replied to with great interest the users ' questions. Next, we extract which are representative of several quiz share with readers.

Dean hung xiaowen, on behalf of SINA Netizen questions

Hong Xiao: Please allow me, on behalf of SINA Netizen raised several questions.

Succession, you are going to change the Microsoft global strategies, the integration of Microsoft's business, as well as open up new business. Enable Microsoft to global financial crisis smoothly through the cold winter?

G Regal ·

Mondi: Bill · Gates 2008 summer from everyday affairs retired three years ago, we announced this decision, and take advantage of the last two years time to allocate its responsibilities. I am not responsible for the overall strategy of Microsoft, only to focus on technology and research and development, looking for new business opportunities or new technology development direction, exploring how can different thinking, to create more business opportunities. Due attention to long-term problems, so I hope that the current economic downturn will accompany us for many years, we expect the current economic downturn will end in 2010, and begin a slow recovery. In fact, this type of recovery is likely to be from China and India to promote recovery. So, I hope that we have the right strategy to guide us in these countries and other parts of the development of our business. I don't think I will directly participate in, say, a structural change, our CEO's responsibilities is thinking of a right relating to the structure of the entire company. My job is to ensure that Microsoft's research and development and our new business development activities that will allow us to respond in the future, that is my concern.

We have a message, write down your dreams

Hong Xiao: can we talk about Microsoft in social public services in the field of work, such as health, education, etc.

G Regal ·

Mondi: in the past few years, our business in three areas. A medical, medical is the world's largest each Government expenditure points, each one of the most basic needs. Therefore, we decided to transition to digital medical. In this and everyone's lives, Microsoft hopes to be able to play a certain role, so we in this area carried out new business.

Education is also an area of government involvement in the Government sector, the second largest expenditure points, while education is to meet the basic needs of the population of an area, the current global two-thirds of people still do not have access to key educational information, so we hope that in this area can make a difference.

The third area is focused on global emerging middle class.

We see China's growing middle class in other countries. Benefit from technological progress, they can have more income, we want to ensure that there are some products that can meet the needs of business and life, and these products in their purchasing power to bear range. China and the United States top social lifestyle is not much difference, they have sufficient capacity to purchase what they need technology products, their personal life and business are not too big of a difference. The main difference between a country and see how many individual countries of the middle class, their disposable income. Therefore, we want to better understand their technology needs of these people, which are offered atthe right products, thereby allowing them to better manage and use their disposable income and family lives and their businesses in a better use of these advanced technologies, so this is one of our concerns.

Hong Xiao: we netizens of the third question, it is a personal issue.

After you retire from Microsoft will do?

G Regal ·

Mondi: I don't want to retirement or retirement plan. In July this year I'm 60 years old, but I think I was very young, with the development of medical technology, and people's life expectancy is increasing. The current technological development so fast, your life, we may be difficult to predict technology will evolve to what degree, we are likely to have the capacity to produce human body some parts of the updated components. Our society is faced with great challenges as a biological, people will live longer and longer, so that traditionally people grow old and retire, models and ideas must also be updated. At least in the foreseeable future such an update will occur.

Personally, I hope I can continue to be of any help human, very important issue, Microsoft to me is a very good platform to globally search for better technology to solve the world's most serious challenges.

There is no doubt that the world has very serious challenges, including health, education, energy, environment, I think the key to solving these problems is the science and technology. Of course, as long as health allows, I will work hard to find a global technology solutions to difficult problems.

On-site student asked Craig mundie ·

People's University

In the case of secondary school students: I am very pleased to be able to come here, as a high school student I care about the future development of a man, my question is, how to balance the expertise of knowledgeable and? in scientific research, one should learn more about the field of research, or should be dedicated to a particular spot?

G Regal ·

Mondi: my answer has several parts, if you're still a young student, it is important for you is to try to find out more in the field of research, one in the early stages of life will be able to find his enthusiasm is located is very fortunate. At the same time, the world is undergoing a change, we in academia and business challenges require the talents of different disciplines, we are faced with many important issues to resolve these problems, you must have an expert team to complete, these experts need to own a deeper understanding of the subject, and other strengths of the formation of experts.

This award-winning student mentioned that their technology Club of students from different disciplines, art, math, science and technology, the interdisciplinary exchange of extraordinary value.

Today, the world's leading universities, graduate schools are aware that they must students more balanced and comprehensive development, so that they have a more basic skills and their subjects outside for better communication and Exchange. A growing number of universities in restructuring their faculties and remodeling their studies with a view to be able to carry out interdisciplinary collaboration. Therefore, I think whether it is a high school or College, in fact, we all should find his enthusiasm, his hobby is located, and then concentrate on their own preferences for these areas. And in what areas need to be found and students to collaborate, better to complete the work.

Over 1 000 Chinese students and Craig mundie face-to-face dialogue ·

Tsinghua University student: I know Microsoft Research Asia and Asia-Pacific region, many university cooperation projects, do you think the current economic downturn will affect Microsoft and Asian university cooperation in this area?

G Regal

· Mondi: I think there won't be any impact. When a global perspective of the current economic crisis, Microsoft's management believes in a time of recession, there will be a slow recovery. Therefore, we will do our best efforts to maintain the level of research and development investment. From 18 century, those who have survived from the economic crisis or live a better company, is the courage in times of economic downturn investment research and new technology enterprise. Microsoft will be appropriate to reduce other activities to ensure that our research and development investment. So, maybe there will be some minor adjustments, but I want to say to our research and development activities will not have any substantive effect, especially in China does not have any impact. We have no doubt will not decrease and China and the world of academic institutions on the other.

Xidian University students: a pleasure to hear your speech, you mentioned the future of technology, we see that technology can change our daily lives, especially changes in our ways of thinking, however, when we see a number of advantages, some technical problems of negative we cannot ignore, such as the impact on the environment, may I ask how do we solve this problem?

G Regal ·

Mondi: I think the whole society at any time to find a balance is required, make work and life easier at the same time, the balance the other side, so that other resources be protected, since we cannot fully control all problems. As computer technology, it will produce a certain degree of self-restraint. We build next generation machine is actually very provincial electricity, for the purposes of their operation, at least compared to the previous machine in a lot, because people are very concerned about these issues.

Over the past few decades, people will not worry for the computer industry, but today's customers have already started to worry abou

t energy conservation and environmental protection issues. In the customer's economic incentive, both at the level of individual machines, or the entire cloud data set, we have a great deal of research and development, and strive to make software, hardware, more energy-efficient. When you write software, if the Assembly language, more savings, you can even use fewer machines. However, due to the complexity and abstraction in Assembly language, written in Assembly language programs for people less and less, so that the so-called waste calculation ability of concept is not correct, the fact that we are to make it easier to write programs. Overall this is a balance, energy-saving and improving the work and life balance between issues.

In the area of energy, if you look at this two-year Microsoft itself, the amount of carbon emissions, is actually very little, our company is not a carbon emissions in large enterprises.

On the other hand, we passed to the emissions of large companies to provide better tools to help other companies with lower carbon emissions, we write software that able to reduce the energy consumption of the entire world computer, rather than just reduce our own carbon emissions. These technologies will be very efficient, and in the future become resolution key to the entire energy consumption.