Gates still 'driven' to improve computer tech

JERUSALEM - His enormous wealth notwithstanding Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates says he is still "driven" to better the personal computer and hopes to make it yet easier to use in a decade's time.

Gates arrived in Israel for a two-day visit including a scheduled meeting with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.

When asked by Israel's Channel 2 television what drove him, a man listed by Forbes magazine as the world's wealthiest man, to "get up everyday and still fight" by going to work, the US business mogul replied:

"I wouldn't call it fighting. This is inventing new products."

Gates, head of the world's largest software company producer of the Windows operating system, said he wanted to devise "a machine that is more powerful than we still have today, easier to use than we have today.

"I'm hoping that over the next 10 years we can create that. So I'm driven by that vision," he said.

- REUTERS