Windows Advances for Consumers, Enterprises
WinInfo | at | by Mike
Jim Allchin, Microsoft group vice president of the Platform Group, opened the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) 2002 Tuesday morning with a keynote address that touted the company's strategic Windows plans and technical vision for the future. Allchin presented a controversial theme in which Windows is the center of innovation in the PC industry, as well as the source of more than $200 billion in yearly hardware, software, and services revenues.
For the connected home of the near future, Allchin offered several upcoming Microsoft solutions, including Mira, Freestyle, and the Xbox. Further out is the next Windows version, code-named Longhorn, which will further simplify home networking and offer new interfaces for "Media Center" PCs that you'll use in your living room and bedroom, not in your home office.