Gates CES Summary 3

...Now, one thing that is very important here is by moving the Windows software in the PC up to use our Windows 2000 technology, which we'll be doing in the next release of Windows, we create a machine that you'll be leaving on 24 hours a day, a machine that can continue to service the different peripherals, the picture frames, the music playing devices, the different control things you have around the house, it will continually service those devices.

........I'm going to go ahead and click on Northwinds Traders, and what I can do then is listen to this station, it's been kind of preprogrammed for me, or I can potentially buy some songs from this and download them into the local network so I can listen to them, or a third option it gives me to do is to create a custom station where I can take the music that I've got here, plus add some other things, and I'm going to add headlines, weather, and traffic.

......We're also taking the interface and saying that we want to make this a device that you can actually read for long periods of time by having screens that are detachable, you can put in your lap, by having the right resolution, by having new font technology we call ClearType, those things will allow this device to be where you would look at a magazine, or where you would look at a long report.

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