The Digital Decade, as addressed by Bill Gates on October 2001 is a vision of making PC the platform to supersede TV. In the Digital Decade, you’ll no longer think of the PC as a tool you use only to carry out specific tasks, it will become something you come to rely on all the time.
How true is the above statement in the beginning of 2007? As Bill Gates addressed the crowds in CES 2007 in Las Vegas, “Over 40 percent of U.S. homes now have multiple personal computers. And if you look at young people, the new generation, they actually spend more time on their Windows PC than they spend watching TV. Now that’s a pretty dramatic change.” In other words, the market is ready for Digital Decade.
The hurdles of realizing Digital Decade had always been PC was not the focal point of a family - it was television. PC was first for scientific calculations and later business spreadsheets. When multimedia finally arrived with the launch of Intel Pentium processor, there was not much to play except encyclopedia contents.