Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates said Tuesday that the dramatic growth of the Net would eventually help eliminate “the last constraints we have” and spark a software-writing revolution.

Gates, speaking at a forum to mark the 10th anniversary of the software giant’s Asian research arm, added that technology currently being developed would convert the way citizens use computers, expanding their ability to interact with the machines.

Increasing World Wide Web connectivity will greatly broaden services for users, allowing them

remote access to a wide range of software and data, he said.

“People often talk about that as the Web service revolution,” Gates told a gathering of 1,600 researchers and academics in Hong Kong. “That will eventually lead to machines that have lots of server capacity, lots of low-cost computing, low-cost storage. And that will let us write software in an even more ambitious way, eliminating the last constraints we have.”

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