David Berlind: Bill Gates is beating the drum for tablets, Smart Display, and Web services - purchased with his $5bn research budget. The question is: do we want to follow, and can we afford to?
On the heels of a long, drawn-out antitrust battle, and in the midst of a technology spending lull that doesn't seem to be easing, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates' message to a less than packed room of Comdex attendees was that there's plenty of industry-wide work to be done in the areas of usability, manageability, security, and connectivity, and that Microsoft was prepared to do it.
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