From: "Mark" 

The preview subject stopped at Office...

I said to myself, he's right, Office sure is dead, what with Google
offering spreadsheets etc, et.al. there's no way (for my limited needs)
I'll ever spend multiple hundreds of dollars for an upgrade to my 2002
version, that I expect fully to balk at installing if I ever have to get
Vista 

"Rich Gauszka"  wrote in
message news:464cefb6$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> 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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