And now, this week's hostage to fortune. At the Comdex exhibition in 2001, Bill Gates brandished a prototype Tablet PC and announced that it is "a PC that is virtually without limits, and within five years, I predict that it will be the most popular form of PC sold in America". We're 20 per cent of the way to that prediction, and the Tablet PC hasn't even launched. The official launch is this Thursday – so Bill must be in a confident mood.
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