Microsoft chief Steve Ballmer took on claims of a looming post-PC era by Steve Jobs at the D8 conference with a view that the Apple CEO was fundamentally wrong. Ballmer denied that PCs were going to disappear and instead said they would "evolve" into smaller designs, some of which would be tablet designs. There would always be a need for a general purpose device, he said, and Jobs' metaphor that computers will only be "trucks" for heavy-duty work was flawed as it assumed PCs wouldn't change.
