Word: microsoft
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...Gates:There are tons of great people here at Microsoft who are always coming up with ideas. I go off for a week every six months and read hundreds of papers from people who are telling me about big advances, and their ideas about things they think we should do. Take a simple concept. You're a parent and your kid is growing up. How do you collect all the photos, email, video, calendars- all those things-and make it so that sharing it with relatives or going back 10 years later and finding some neat moments are very easy...
...already anticipated the needs of a multitasking, on-demand and highly mobile consumer population. As you cogitate on what's next technologically, and the role the PC will play, what do you see now as you look ahead-what will we need, what will we want and how will Microsoft products deliver...
...product people and our researchers together is probably the event that people look forward to the most because researchers love showing their new things and the product development people come in and not only get specific ideas, but they are reminded about the magic of software, which is what Microsoft has been about from the beginning-that software can unlock much better ways of being creative and communicating and keeping the memories of your kids, of being entertained. As the years go by, how people will be empowered by software will just get better and better...
Apple is finally joining the battle for the living room, having arrived a bit later than rival combatants Microsoft and Sony. Apple fired its first salvo last week when it unveiled its iPod Hi-Fi and Macs with its updated media networking system Bonjour...
...enthusiasm and, possibly, a $19 DVI-to-video adapter, to get the thing hooked up to the sound system and TV. But if Apple were to sell a $300 version with no hard drive and built-in TV connectivity - and maybe some higher-definition video at the iTunes store - Microsoft and Sony will surely snap to attention...