Top Stories of 2001, #4: Non-PC Devices
WinInfo | at | by Mike
Almost a year ago, Microsoft Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates began espousing a concept he called the PC-Plus era, in which the PC would expand from its humble office roots and form the center of a digital hub in our lives. Today this concept is almost taken for granted, and the PC will clearly play a major role well into the future. But in January 2001 the concept wasn't at all obvious; Gates clearly designed his assertion of a PC-Plus era to counter arguments from Sun Microsystems' Scott McNealy and others that we had entered the post-PC era, in which the PC's relevance would fall as other computerized devices rose in importance.