
<A HREF="http://news.zdnet.com/2110-1035_22-6225268.html?tag=nl.e550">Microsoft will not launch a product that competes directly with Apple's iPhone,</A> the software company's chairman, Bill Gates, said in an interview with Germany's Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. "No, we won't do that. In the so-called smartphone business we will concentrate solely on software with our Windows Mobile program," Gates was quoted as saying in the interview, which was published on Wednesday.