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...Gates:We think about software running on the Windows PC but also on phone, in TV, in your car, across all these devices helping you get things done in a user-centric way. And you have to think about it from both ends: What would people like to have done for them? And you have to think about what can technology do. Inside our organization we have people who are particularly strong at one or the other. We find ways to bring those together. The best thinkers actually understand both sides of that. Some things that people would like...
...looks like and is as easy to use as a paper calendar that hangs on most kitchen walls, crammed with daily to-do lists and annotated with scribbled margin notes, asteriks and arrows. It's designed for use in the kitchen, but the data is downloadable to everyone?s cell phone as well as their work, school and home computers. The idea is to keep the entries legible while keeping mom, dad and all the kids on the same page, literally and electronically, all the time. Each person can add, switch or delete entries and the changes are automatically incorporated onto...
...rather than keywords. The wi fi camera sends images to the PC which uploads it to a server that then tries to recognize the picture by searching through a database of images. The server does all the search work and sends the results back to the user's cell phone. "They always say a picture is worth a thousand words," says team member Larry Zitnick. "So imagine I'm at the grocery store, if I'm looking at a product from the shelves, like cereal, and I want more information about it, I take my cell phone out, take...
...When my wife has a loud, uniquely colored cocktail dress and doesn't feel like spending a few hundred dollars on a pair of shoes she'll wear with it once a year, she'll buy a gingerly used pair on eBay. I get a new computer and cell phone every six months to a year...
...come closer to the vertical if I attempted to offer the apologies I owe the poets whose voices I so hideously distorted in my attempts at ventriloquism above. (On which: sorry, George. Sorry, Walt. Ashbery technically does not belong, as I could look him up in the New York phone book. But, for the record, I’m sorry...