Microsoft - Big Plans for Longhorn Laptops

Microsoft’s Bill Mitchell wishes consumers were as excited about buying laptops as they are about buying cell phones.Unfortunately, says Mitchell, head of the company’s mobile PC efforts, there are good reasons 700 million cell phones were sold last year, compared with about 50 million laptops. Portable computers are too bulky, too slow and too quick to run out of juice, he told a crowd of computer makers Tuesday.

..Consumers can buy a laptop that has either the pen-based abilities of the Tablet PC OS or one with the TV recording abilities of the Media Center OS, but not both. In Longhorn, computer makers may be able to combine the two capabilities.

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