Microsoft's next great software gambit?
InternetNews | at | by Mike
It was back to the future for Microsoft today. The company's chairman and co-founder Bill Gates took the stage here to help launch the company's Unified Communications software. In other words, he was here to talk phones.
Gates told an audience of about 2,000 customers, partners and media that office phone systems haven't changed much in the 30 years since the first crude personal kits were launched. Putting aside advances in mobile phones, he said office phones have added a lot of buttons that people don't know what to do with, and small screens that don't provide a lot of information.