The article quotes Gates as saying that heid “bet on the mobile phone for sure” as the mobile device that will eventually emerge as the best for listening to music. The article also notes that Microsoft is working hard to get its Windows Mobile smart phone software into devices manufactured by nearly 70 companies, a move that the company hopes will make it more competitive in the face of another threat: Research in Motionis ubiquitous BlackBerry.
Gates also told the German publication that, at 50, heis eyeing the day he steps away from the company he helped found. “I think that when someone is 60 years old, he should better leave it to someone else to follow trends in technology. But until then, thereis still a lot to do.”