As tech visionaries go, Bill Gates has a pretty good track record, though he's not right 100% of the time. Right now, Mr. Gates has big plans for revolutionizing how your company uses its phone service, with Voice Over IP becoming more and more important, and conference phones capable of streaming video out to multiple sites and using software to track who is speaking, and therefore on camera. One of the ways he will do this is through Microsoft's new Roundtable device, the high-tech looking gizmo pictured above that is intended to replace current PBX phone systems. In a recent article from the Tech Sanity Check website, editor Jason Hiner quoted Gates at Microsoft's Unified Communications Launch 2007 event. " 'This is a complete transformation of the business of the traditional PBX,” Gates said. “The PBX in some ways is almost like the mainframe was many years ago where all of the functionality was there in that one piece. And the way that you had … to add value, to customize, to bring in third parties to do new things, it just isn’t there in that structure. And so by moving phone calls onto the Internet, using the powerful industry standard servers, we’ve got a very different way of being able to do things. And that can lead not only to lower cost, but far more effectiveness in how your employees work within your company, or with customers and partners outside your company.' " What Microsoft's innovations will mean to the VoIP small business solution is hard to predict, but it could lead to voice over IP becoming more pervasive in the business world, and lower overall costs for the small business VoIP.