Despite what many think, it's not always easy persuading politicians on Capitol Hill to take up items on Silicon Valley's wish list, even if you're Bill Gates and his posse.
That was one message that the Microsoft chairman and Chief Research and Strategy Officer Craig Mundie had on Thursday for the some 1,100 local business and government representatives gathered at a breakfast here sponsored by the Northern Virginia Technology Council. (NVTC's board includes companies like IBM, Micron, Unisys, AOL, Sprint Nextel, and, of course, Microsoft.)
Gates spent most of his hourlong appearance at the event behind a podium in a cavernous hotel ballroom, waxing optimistic about the future of software and hardware. He gave what has become a familiar set of predictions about the increasing digitization of analog things ("smart" white boards in offices, physical desktops that are touch-sensitive computers in themselves, a la Microsoft's Surface tabletop PC) and the rising importance of software in everything from health care to three-dimensional simulations to education.
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