Bill Gates working on a new book	比爾·蓋茨撰寫新書 科技先鋒展望未來
Bill Gates attends a news conference before the start of the 58th World Health Assembly (WHA) at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, May 16, 2005. (Balibouse/Reuters) Bill Gates, the co-founder and chairman of Microsoft Corp., is planning to write another book on how new technology will affect people and companies. Gates, whose last book, "Business @ at the Speed of Thought," was published in 1996, is still in the early stages of planning and no date has been set yet for the book's release, Microsoft spokesman John Pinette said. "Bill has begun thinking about a new book that will talk about new technology and how innovation is going to transform the way we communicate, entertainment and also how innovation is going to have a profound effect at large institutions," Pinette said. Gates also wrote "The Road Ahead" in 1995 with two other authors. Many of the topics that Gates is expected to cover in his book includes themes around improving the way individuals and corporations collect and manage the increasing volume of data made available through technology. Such topics are also on the agenda at Microsoft's annual CEO Summit, where the software giant invites chief executives from various corporations around the world to its Redmond, Washington campus for two days of networking and presentations led by Gates. The world's largest software maker also announced that it would launch the next version of its Office spreadsheet, e-mail and word processing programs during the second half of 2006, the same time frame it is planning for the next version of Windows, code-named Longhorn. (Agencies)	微軟公司的創始人兼總裁比爾·蓋茨計劃撰寫一本新書，這本新書將闡述未來科技對大眾和企業的影響。 蓋茨的上一本書《未來時速》出版于1996年。微軟公司發言人約翰·培迪特表示：新書目前仍處于計劃的初級階段，其出版時間尚未確定。 培迪特說：“比爾已經開始考慮新書的內容，這本新書在介紹新技術的同時將闡述創新給人們的交流和娛樂方式帶來的改變，以及創新對整個社會產生的深遠的影響。” 1995年，蓋茨與另兩名作者一起合寫了《未來之路》。 蓋茨新書涉及的很多主題都將圍繞如何通過技術革新來改善個人和公司收集、管理日益增長的大量數據的方法。 此類話題同樣出現在微軟公司年度CEO峰會的議程上。軟件巨頭微軟公司把世界各地的首席執行官們請到位于美國雷特蒙德（微軟總部所在地）的華盛頓大學，參加由蓋茨主持的、為期兩天的網絡會議和演講活動。 微軟公司同時宣布，將于2006年下半年發行Office電子制表軟件、電子郵件以及文字處理程序的最新版本。同期，還將發行Windows操作系統的新版本，代碼名為Longhorn。 （中國日報網站譯）