Bill Gates says Lanka is poised for greater growth-15.07.2009-ITN News Sri Lanka

Microsoft Founder Bill Gates has expressed his optimism that Sri Lanka is poised for greater economic growth and development.
He expressed the global giants support since much of future prosperity would be fueled by the use of software and the power of it. The positive sentiments by Gates, one of the worlds richest entrepreneurs, were conveyed to none other than President Rajapaksa via a special audio visual message at a ceremony to handover a plaque incorporating the first copy of the Sinhala language interface pack from Microsoft and ICTA, paving the way towards making significant progress in rural ICT adoption in Sri Lanka. Like President Rajapaksa, he opined he is confident that the country is poised for greater economic growth and development and much of that will be fueled by the use of software and the power of it.

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[freeboyerror]

In a world without wals and fenses who need gates and windows ?

[INDImind]

Yes fantastic!! good initiative! there will be no SW piracy! which is a good thing. I'm not worried cos i have OEM copy that i got for 60 GBP = 12,000 LKR. fantastic thing!!

[cjayasuriya]

way to go! It also should be in Tamil. or is it already??

[TinTin7777777]

hot stuff malli hot staff, wakkernawa, berenewaaaaa. vista with sinhala haha.

[danushke]

lovely ... great stuff