People are underestimating what Microsoft is doing with search technology, says Bill Gates.The head of the software giant told the BBC that its ambition is to be bigger than Google in search. He said that competition had ultimately been good for web users because it had pushed search technology. This meant search would be "far better" in a year.
The next decade looks even better, he said, with a lot more advances in software technology ahead. "The beauty of software is that we are always making breakthroughs. We will have more in the next 10 years than we have had on the last 30," he said in an exclusive BBC interview.
Mr Gates said he saw Microsoft's strengths lying in search, but also in its software that provides the glue to make different devices talk to each other so that people can have more power over their content.
"We are in the best position we have ever been in," he said. But he stressed that Google was not the only threat it faced in the long term. It had competition in every arena, from the likes of Nokia, Sony and Apple, but that was something with which Microsoft had become accustomed.
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