Bill Gates -- the magic continues

Fortune magazine has interviewed Microsoft boss Bill Gates. In one of many interesting remarks, Gates has extended and adjusted the range of computer targets in line with his CES presentation. "There are five form factors: wall-sized, desk-sized, tablet-sized, pocket-sized, and wrist-sized," he says. I've always liked the desktop/laptop/palmtop/wristtop formulation for personal computers, though technically that's only a subdivision of the mainframe/mini/personal computer division from the 1970s and 1980s. "Tablet-sized" clearly suits Microsoft's agenda better than "notebook", though that's not a term I've ever been happy with. "Phonebook-sized" might be more appropriate in the UK, though not in the US, where most phone books seem to be more than twice as thick.