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'Of Course We Are In a Post-PC World,' Says Ray Ozzie

Posted by Soulskill on from the you-can-pry-my-pc-from-my-cold,-dead-hands dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Speaking at a tech conference in Seattle this week, former Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie had some interesting things to say about the state of the computing industry. 'People argue about "are we in a post-PC world?" Why are we arguing? Of course we are in a post-PC world. That doesn't mean the PC dies, that just means that the scenarios that we use them in, we stop referring to them as PCs, we refer to them as other things.' Ozzie also thinks Microsoft's future as a company is strongly tied to Windows 8's reception. 'If Windows 8 shifts in a form that people really want to buy the product, the company will have a great future. ... It's a world of phones and pads and devices of all kinds, and our interests in general purpose computing — or desktop computing — starts to wane and people start doing the same things and more in other scenarios.'"

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  1. A Brave New World by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    of greasy fingerprints.

    1. Re:A Brave New World by moderatorrater · · Score: 3, Funny

      The worst is when you find a short, curly hair in your keyboard that's not your hair color.

    2. Re:A Brave New World by Dahamma · · Score: 4, Funny

      Yeah, they keep getting stuck in the rotor blades...

    3. Re:A Brave New World by DeathFromSomewhere · · Score: 5, Funny

      I really did not want the image of a slashdotter showering with his keyboard. I am now forever scarred. I hope you are happy.

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    4. Re:A Brave New World by snikulin · · Score: 4, Funny

      You don't have a small kid, do you?

  2. Ruhroh by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Ozzie also thinks Microsoft's future as a company is strongly tied to Windows 8's reception."

    They're doomed.

    1. Re:Ruhroh by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      I don't know... I kinda like Windows 8. It's not a bad OS and it's actually a real step forward for the company and the OS in general.

    2. Re:Ruhroh by Gilmoure · · Score: 3, Funny

      Wait, wait, wait. Hooking things up to other things? That's totally mind blowing! I mean, I saw one of these smart phones for dum people and sure, I laughed but the idea that you could hook something in to change how you use a device, my god, that's geinus!

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  3. Re:You can have my PC by Dahamma · · Score: 4, Funny

    If you are holding your PC in your arms maybe you should be considering something else after all.