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He's an apple guy, so he spins this for Apple readers, but there's definitely a takeaway here for Nokia too:

Microsoft CEO Scoffs at Mac Share Gains

Steve rightly observes competitive changes coming from phone-based operating systems, but strangely he doesn't include Apple:

I assume we're going to see Android-based, Linux-based laptops, in addition to phones. We'll see Google more as a competitor in the desktop operating system business than we ever have before. The seams between what's a phone operating system and a PC operating system will change, and so we have ramped the investment in the client operating system.

That's an astute observation and right direction for investment. Apple is there already, though, with close alignment between Mac OS X on the desktop and mobile derivative for iPhone.
I think Apple's not the only one who's (going) there already... I really believe Maemo 5 will be the first real mobile OS that will effectively blur the phone / PC OS distinction completely...
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