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“Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Corp.’s hard-charging,bombastic,
number-one apostle, capped awhirlwind work week by telling a
hometown audience that the PC will reign as king for many years,
despite new form factors and rapid evolution in technology.”
“Speaking today before about 175 members of the Washington
Software Association, which represents some 2,500 software
companies in Washington state, Ballmer said Microsoft is determined
to remain atop the software world that is dominated by PCs.”
The computing industry can look ahead to 20 more years of
exponential changes vis-a-vis Moore’s Law, Ballmer said. He also
said he envisions a new era of the ‘PC-plus,’ a time when the PC
may be attached to many new form factors, such as mobile devices,
smart phones and televisions with set-top boxes, but that the PC
won’t be replaced by these devices.