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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (117486)	11/12/2000 11:27:41 PM
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Gates defends PC in Comdex speech By: Ian Fried and Stephen Shankland, CNET News.com 11/12/00 8:17:00 PM Source: News.com LAS VEGAS--With no major software debuts imminent, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates used his state-of-the-computing-world address Sunday to call for a greater role for desktop PCs, showing off some of the technologies that will lead the PC’s resurrection. In his Comdex address, Gates took aim at the approach of rivals such as Sun Microsystems, outlining future hardware and software that take advantage of the full power of today’s desktop computers, arguing that even sleek portables need the power of a PC. In essence, Gates painted a future of the Internet that did not bypass Microsoft’s franchise Windows operating system. Sun and other companies have outlined a more varied future, with most of the Internet’s complexity placed on central servers and everything from pagers to cell phones being used to access the Internet. “Some people have had the mistaken notion that in order to make the server smarter, you need to make the client dumber,” Gates said. Gates noted that the browser-based world in which most of the Internet’s information resides on servers is waning. “The browser model, which has been the focus for the last five years, really is showing its age,” Gates said, speaking to a packed stadium at the MGM Grand Hotel.