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(1) Today is a major milestone for Microsoft as we hold our first Professional Developers Conference here in China. The key part
(1) Today is a major milestone for Microsoft as we hold our first Professional Developers Conference here in China. The key part
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2019-11-28
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(1) Today is a major milestone for Microsoft as we hold our first Professional Developers Conference here in China. The key partnerships we build with software developers around the world are not only to talk about the success of Windows but also to realize the possibility that PC technology provides. It’s through applications of every variety that businesses will be using the personal computer as the tool of the Information Age.
(2) It’s rather amazing how fast this innovation is moving. Even for people like myself, who are deeply involved in the industry, seeing the improvements that are taking place on a yearly basis is quite fantastic. Of course one of the driving factors of this business is the exponential increase in processor performance. There is no doubt the magic that chip capability has delivered through advances in microprocessors allows us to think of applications which never would have been possible before.
(3) The PC industry is one of the few industries that can deliver lower price equipment while improving the capabilities. Storage systems are now delivering a gigabyte of storage as the standard capability. Over 80 million PCs are being sold a year. In the server market, the higher performance machines that these PCs are networked with are the fastest growing part of this business. The performance of those servers is increasing not only because the individual processors are faster, but also because we are using multiple-processor machines, so called SMP designs and clustering nodes together.
(4) We are also improving the high-end software on the server level. A year ago, the fastest transaction benchmarks using PC technology were about 6,000 transactions a minute. Today it is more than double that, to over 14,000 transactions a minute. I can say with great confidence that next year we’ll more than double that again.
(5) It’s fair to say that even the most demanding applications now can be handled with PC technology. At the same time as we have this power, we also need to improve the simplicity of the machines and to make interface easier to work with. I will talk today at the end of my presentation about some of the research we are doing, in areas like handwriting, vision and linguistics. These will make the machines far more natural than they are today. These tools of the Information Age are for everyone, not just people with particular expertise in computer technology.
(6) Microsoft has a vision for where PCs are going. That vision says PCs will be a central element of how companies share information. The name of that vision is the Digital Nervous System (DNS), allowing companies to reduce paper work and make better decisions. The DNS means that not only are the PCs connected together, not only do you have standard elements like electronic mail, but all the processes like order taking, sales planning, personnel management and project management — all of those have been set up to take full advantage of the capabilities of the computer.
(7) By empowering everyone in the company to have the information they need and allowing them to focus on what really counts, not only will customer service improve, but the ability to collaborate with partners around the world will become very straightforward. It’s fair to say that the key platform for DNS is the combination of the Internet with the PC.
(8) The benefit of this kind of system is even clearer when you are dealing with surprises. In this kind of economic climate there are all kinds of surprises, whether it’s new regulations or customers who want a product in a different way, or something that the competitors are doing. These systems are particularly good at allowing one company to do better than other companies in dealing with these unplanned events. So we are saying that modern companies will not only have the technology but will use it in a very deep fashion for competitive advantage.
(9) The building blocks that allow companies to have the world’s best DNS are very simple. In fact, most companies are investing in these things today. The up-to-date computers, the productivity tools, the email which I think will become very standard. On today’s business cards it is not that common to have an email address. I think in five to 10 years here in China, most business people will have an electronic mail address. It won’t just be simple messages that would be exchanged but all the things they would have done in paper forms today, where you have to fill out information. Those will shift over into the electronic form. So DNS is a big vision— one that won’t be realized overnight, but one that will be the direction of the industry.
The following possibilities that PC technology provides have been achieved EXCEPT______.
选项
A、simplicity
B、fast innovation
C、cheap PC with better capabilities
D、improvement of high-end software
答案
A
解析
本题属于细节理解。PC技术在许多方面取得了进步,如:创新的速度很快、物美价廉、高端软件的研发。但是,PC的简单化还需改进,即如何增强界面的友好性,使其更加自然。
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