as far as Bill gates is concerned this year we should get an update to server 2003 but the windows future storage system is probably further away, at least the full version codename longhorn possibly 2005, but this year windows media centre will be added to pocket pc 2003 to give XP media centre 2004, and he will try to persuade people that his portable media centre is revolutionary, when some of us are on our 3rd generation of the concept
As far as Technics is concerned... nothing