Bill Gates: the Traditional PC Is Changing

[wraggster]

"Bill Gates, in an interview with Charlie Rose last night, defended the move to Metro-ize Windows 8 and focus solely on the tablet experience (http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Bill-Gates-Charlie-Rose-Surface-Windows-8-Microsoft,16190.html) (here's the video (http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/12436) — tablet talk starts around 28 minutes in). When asked how traditional PC users will react, he explained that the world is moving into tablets, and a new PC needs to have both experiences integrated together. Also, he defended the move to build the Surface (http://www.businessinsider.com/bill-gates-microsoft-surface-2012-7) while charging his competitors a bundle for Windows 8. He says users have access to both experiences, whether it is a signature Microsoft one, or from an OEM. Is the a sign the desktop is dead or dying?"Gates stopped short of saying the traditional PC is dead, but dodged direct questions about its future. This is a big change to the stance he has advocated (http://it.slashdot.org/story/05/03/22/1753205/the-pc-is-not-dead) in years pas (http://slashdot.org/story/06/05/17/0013234/gates-claims-pc-era-not-over-yet)

http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/07/03/2227234/bill-gates-the-traditional-pc-is-changing