From: Rich Gauszka 

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.

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