Tech pundits have a bizarre habit of declaring products dead long before they're actually goners. (Here, for instance, is an article that says Facebook is toast — from 2008.) Me, I do my darndest to resist the temptation to play premature coroner. I will say this, though: if the PC does end up mortally wounded someday, we may look back at early June of 2011 as the moment when its death warrant was signed.
In the past eight days, Microsoft and Apple have shown off upcoming versions of their operating systems. Their plans differ in fundamental respects, but both companies are looking past the PC era we've lived in for the past three decades. They're building software for an age in which people do their computing and communicating on all kinds of gadgets — ones that are simpler, more portable and more Internet-centric than PCs as we've known them.
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