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Slideshow: Gates Goes From Geek to Chic

Bill Gates pulls a few tricks from the Steve Jobs playbook as he launches Athens, the translucent new multitasking PC he claims is "everything a user needs." But lest attendees at WinHEC think Gates has gone Mac-mad, he also promises to unveil Microsoft's plans for secure computing. By Michelle Delio.
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Gates showed off a new PC prototype dubbed Athens, which may include both Next Generation Secure Computing Base technology and the next Windows operating system, code-named Longhorn, when it becomes available late next year.Courtesy of Microsoft

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Bill Gates describes Microsoft's Next Generation Secure Computing Base during his opening keynote speech at the 12th annual Windows Hardware Engineering Conference.

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Co-developed by Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard, Athens' translucent case contains an integrated wireless phone with handset and headset, a video camera for videoconferencing and a 23-inch flat panel display with a CD/DVD drive built into the monitor.

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