![]() ![]() products, which integrate the Internet and broadcast television. They have telephones, smart PCs - they even have televisions," he said, refering to TV set-top boxes and Microsoft's WebTV Networks Inc. "I think Microsoft is becoming another Sony (Corp.). of Houston, further suggested that Microsoft is moving farther away from its software roots. Sanjay Talwar, an Anchorage, Alaska-based assistant director with Era Aircraft Inc. Gates and Microsoft officials who came on stage touted the feature-rich software to come from the company, but that aspect of the applications could prove troublesome for some users, suggested one member of the audience, which numbered more than 12,000 at the MGM Grand hotel. The new interface also will be different "because there's no doubt that this year you could really say that the browser model. Their needs also mean that the emerging industry model "can't just be pure client-to-client" because servers are necessary to provide "huge repositories" of data and for other functions that client machines can't handle. Users want to access data from different sites that they can reach from one point, Gates said, but they don't necessarily want to stay at just one site. "But you can't do speech, you can't do video" using that model, which further limits users to seeing one thing at a time, akin to the single portal approach in which all of the data wanted at a particular time is shown on the computer screen, Gates said. He did take one small swipe at rival Sun Microsystems Inc., which Gates said promotes the idea of "get rid of the PCs - if you lose your privacy, get over it," with servers playing the dominant hardware role. Microsoft competitors are certain to quibble with Gates' future view, which is a "software-to-software" approach in which the applications enable the machines to work more effectively together in whatever model the user needs - server-to-server, server-to-client, client-to-client. Personal computing news and reviews from IDG.net ![]() Questions about computers? Let IDG.net's editors help you Subscribe to IDG.net's free daily newsletters TechInformer: The Thinking Internaut's Guide to the Tech Industry For example, Microsoft has been working with a legal services company to provide Smart Tags that will allow documents in Office to include legal citations culled from the Web and to access Black's Law Dictionary. Smart Tags can be used to create vertical industry versions of Office applications, according to a Microsoft official who demonstrated Office 10 during the keynote. One example is a new feature in Office 10, now in beta test, called Smart Tags, which can automatically link certain words to local or Internet-based information. The XML features can be used to tie words or data in Office applications to information on the Internet. Office 10 will feature native support for XML in the Excel spreadsheet and the Access database. "Microsoft and the industry should really build their future around XML," said Gates, who traditionally gives the opening Comdex speech, offering his view of the state of the industry and its future. The machines runs on a 500-MHz or 600-MHz processor, has 128 megabytes of RAM, a 10 gigabyte hard drive and operates on the next version of Windows 2000, code-named "Whistler." The Tablet PC is expected to be released in the second half of 2002.Īlthough the Tablet PC had center stage, the keynote devoted time to showing off the latest version of Office - Office 10 - due out next year, and its XML capabilities. The demonstration showed how Microsoft's software will allow users to enter handwritten text on the Web Tablet, and then edit that text as if it were a Microsoft Word document, by highlighting words and pasting them, for example.Ĭomdex preview: Giant trade show adds wirelessĬNN's Rick Lockridge finds out what's being touted at the annual trade show It can be used with peripherals like a mouse and keyboard or users can write on it with a pen that duplicates their writing on the screen, sort of like a child's Etch-A-Sketch toy. The colorful computer is the size of a pad of paper and is an inch thick. His talk included a preview of the next versions of the Windows operating system, the Office suite of applications and the first public glimpse of the Tablet PC prototype Gates described as "one of the most amazing projects we've ever been involved in." Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates said here Sunday. LAS VEGAS, Nevada (IDG) - The computer industry is heading into an era of "unconstrained innovation" as old models fall away and applications based on XML (Extensible Markup Language) take over, Microsoft Corp. Microsoft founder Bill Gates speaks about his company's ''.Net'' strategy during his keynote presentation at Comdex Gates touts XML, Tablet PC at Comdex keynote From. ![]()
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