On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Udhay Shankar N <[email protected]> wrote:
<snip/> >>People ask me, are you upbeat or not, and I say, about technology I?m >>super upbeat. The industry that we?re in, information technology, stands >>at the threshold of again a new revolution. >> >>I joined Microsoft essentially for the PC revolution. The Internet >>revolution, we have the revolution of what I might call pervasive >>computing. Computers that are as thin and light as this on which you can >>have access to the world?s information will be kind of expected over the >>next five and 10 years. <snip/> I know this is nit picking in the larger scheme of things that are mentioned in the talk but I like the way he sneaks in the idea that Microsoft drove the thin computer revolution. I seem to remember that they were trying their best to suppress the idea as best as they could around ten years ago. -gabin -- Fred Allen - "California is a fine place to live - if you happen to be an orange."
