Tablets aren't likely to displace PCs for many content creation and work tasks anytime soon, though.
Friday, October 19, 2012
"The End of Windows?"
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff quips that Microsoft’s Windows 8 operating system will be “the end of Windows” and that “Windows is irrelevant.” Hyperbole aside, there is a clear shift of consumer interest toward tablet devices for what we used to call "computing."
Tablets aren't likely to displace PCs for many content creation and work tasks anytime soon, though.
Tablets aren't likely to displace PCs for many content creation and work tasks anytime soon, though.
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
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