Ballmer has said in a Tokyo news conference held on Thursday that in next few years he knows that he would be watching his favorite golfer, Tiger Woods, playing a tournament and would be seeing him hit one particularly brilliant shot. He said that he would be shouting at his television set that hey Bill, did you just see that Tiger made that putt? and Microsoft software would wake up inside the TV, would be recognizing Ballmer`s voice, and will know that when he says Bill, he means Bill Gates, will find him wherever he would be and will be checking whether he is willing for interruption caused by the call.

Interacting with the contacts through your television set ties in to the recently announced three screens, one cloud vision of Microsoft Corporation which sees the customers using PCs, TVs, and their cellular phones for accessing the data and applications that are stored on the servers, both on real and on the virtual ones, means the ones residing on the Internet or cloud as it is becoming to be known.