Gates Says PC Will Be the New Office Phone

Speaking at Microsoft’s annual CEO Summit at the Redmond, Washington, Bill Gates said that the office landline will soon be a thing for the museums. “You’ll have the PC with a phone peripheral and then you’ll have your mobile phone. And the mobile phone and that PC will be working together in a rich way,” Gates said. Gates believes that functionally, PC’s and mobile phones are coming closer. Cell phones will get bigger screens, and computers will keep adding more functionality, e.g. becoming as portable as mobile phones. What a lot of people take this to mean is that Bill Gates still believes that there is a place in people’s lives for yet a gadget. that replicates the functions of a computer or laptop and as well as the mobile phone, namely the tablet PC. Here’s how Bill Gates himself puts it: “I tend to believe that the phone will move up and the PC will move down and there won’t be any special devices categories, because the power of being able to run any applications, wither it’s media, reading, navigation, is very strong.” It sounds to me like either Nokia’s N95 or the Apple iPhone. What do you think?