La fine dell’era del PC: Microsoft’s Ozzie declares end to PC era
Microsoft’s new top technology visionary on Thursday declared an end to the PC era as the software company made its latest attempt to deal with the threat to its traditional business from the rise of the internet.
Ray Ozzie, who took over the title of chief software architect from Bill Gates last month when the Microsoft chairman announced his plan to leave the company in 2008, laid out a vision for the company in which internet-based services, rather than PCs, lie at the centre of its worldview.
“In a previous era – in the PC era – Microsoft would naturally begin with a PC mindset,” he said at the company’s annual analyst and investor meeting.
“We’re in a new era – an era in which the internet is at the centre.”