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Rich Gauszka wrote:
> If the PC is your office phone and Windows activation fails, how will
> you call support to be reactivated?
>
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/05/17/gates_desktop_phone_office/
>
> Bill Gates has been banging the communications convergence and new media
> drum for business leaders, telling chief executives the PC is the phone
> of the future.
>
> Opening his company's annual CEO Summit at the Redmond, Washington,
> campus Gates envisioned the death of the desktop phone, as PCs take on
> phone-like functionality and integrated communications are provided
> through applications like the upcoming Office Communicator 2007 and
> Office Communications Server 2007.
>
> "You'll have the PC with a phone peripheral and then you'll have your
> mobile phone. And the mobile phone and that PC will be working together
> in a rich way," he said.

& how popular will patch.....day be?

Will MS pay for the mobile phone/3G bandwidth & thus cost when patches
are required or will they be loaded via USB from a normal PC?

Adam

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