• Wall Street Journal, Friday, June 4, 2010 10:37 AM

"Hold on to your horses there, Stevie boy," Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer seems to be saying to Apple CEO Steve Jobs. "Let's not declare the PC a buggy just yet."

Responding to Job's comments Tuesday, when he actually compared PCs to lumbering trucks and mobile devices to sleek automobiles, Ballmer told an audience at the Journal's "All Things Digital" conference yesterday that "I think people are going to be using PCs in greater and greater numbers for many years to come."

DreamWorks Animation SKG CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg, for one, is with Apple's Steve. He exclusively uses an iPad and smartphone. "The laptop is yesterday's news," he says.

In the end, Nick Wingfield and Jeanette Borzo report, Esther Dyson might have the sagest POV of all, as she often does: Jobs and Ballmer are "really arguing over nothing" since both recognize the increasingly important role new devices play in peoples' lives. "It doesn't matter what you call it -- things are changing," she says.

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