Salakhetdinov Shamil
mcp2004 at mail.ru
Tue Feb 11 00:38:04 CST 2014
Hi All -- FYI: " Bill Gates Explains His New Role At Microsoft, Says Nadella Asked Him To “Pitch In” " http://techcrunch.com/2014/02/10/bill-gates-explains-his-new-role-at-microsoft-says-nadella-asked-him-to-pitch-in/ Does anybody remember a Microsoft Advertisement (sci-fi) movie, which AFAIKR was called "Microsoft 2004"? I cannot remember its release date, was that 1997 or even before? It was about 40-45 minutes long if I'm not mistaken. In that movie (inspired by that time MS's CEO Bill Gates?) one can find how technologies (very similar to smart-phones, tablets and desktops) are used for everyday tasks such as - smart-phone driven bank money transfers, - using Internet to prepare presentation by a teenager on his PC, then move it into cloud and demonstrate in the college by using his smart-phone as projector; - gaming, controller by smart-phone, - etc. That time I thought it should have taken quite a few years before that sci-fi movie came true. It's reality now. Still, I can't understand how it happened that MS having such a true technology evolution vision in the end of 90-ies missed to get into the leaders of today's mobile market... -- Салахетдинов Шамиль