The top guys at Microsoft and Intel partnered this morning to trumpet "the end of the beginning of the PC Era." In an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal, Bill Gates and Paul Otellini wrote that PC/digital technology "is just now becoming as ubiquitous as the TV or the automobile."
While cheer leading for "the open, broad industry approach" in the personal computer era, Gates and Otellini didn't resist taking a shot at Apple Computer. "Last year, laptops based on Intel Centrino mobile processors and Microsoft Windows XP outsold the highly popular iPod," the wrote. "Early next year," they added, a milestone will be passed when "the number of computers in use ... connected to the World Wide Web will pass the 1 billion mark."
Hmm, about that "the open, broad industry approach." Even Google's complaining about Redmond's dominance.
Sorry, the Gates/Otellini column is behind the subscription gate.
Lots of other reasons to buy today's WSJ: A 10-page Technology section has articles about how the Web is changing TV by giving power to the viewer, and how the Net is bringing the personalized newspaper closer and closer.
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