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Louis Vuitton bagslike Kinect does for gaming (and your Netflix and Hulu queues).To that end, Microsoft is also focusing on natural language. "Today on a PC, it's file open, blah, blah, blah, respond, reply, forward. I can't just say to my device, get me ready for my trip to Tokyo," Ballmer said. " We ought to make it so that the search engines, and the user interface of the device can take actions on our behalf."Ballmer also talked up the company's use of HTML and JavaScript; "we have to recognize that more and more of the world's talent will know these techniques," he said.And, of course, there's the cloud. "Skype is just another representation of what we think is the importance of enabling a broad range of scenarios in the cloud," he said of Microsoft's recent
Louis vuittonacquisition.Expect to hear more about the future of Windows at the "D: All Things Digital" conference next week in California. All Things D just confirmed that Microsoft's Windows president, Steven Sinofsky, will appear at the conference, which runs from May 31 to June 2.Ballmer also talked up Windows Phone and the expected 500 new features that the next upgrade will bring. Microsoft is expected to unveil more details about that upgrade, codenamed Mango, at a press event in New York on Tuesday. It will be webcast live on Microsoft's Web site at 10am Eastern time.Ballmer also reiterated that Microsoft has "some work to do" when it comes to tablets, but stressed that "there will be a day in the future where it will be hard to distinguish a phone from a slate, from a PC.""You literally will have displays that become paper thin and very easy to fold out form your phone," he concluded. "And at the same time, you're going to get more and more PC-like capabilities in smaller form factor devices."If you're so inclined, Ballmer also encouraged users to email him with questions (SteveB@Microsoft.com); perhaps he'll turn up some Steve Jobs-esque responses?
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