After first giving the keynote address for the Computer Electronics Show almost 15 years ago, Bill Gates gave his final speech in Las Vegas on January 6th. Bill spoke about the past 10 years of software and where he sees the next "digital decade" taking us.

He also took time to talk briefly about the fact that this would be his last CES keynote and the fact that in July of '08 he'll be moving from his fulltime position at Microsoft to working fulltime on his foundation. Having been employed with Microsoft since the age of 17, he joked about the fact of not knowing what he would do that last day at work this summer. He showed us a humerous video where celebraties such as Jay Z, Bono, Jon Stewart, Stephen Spielberg, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and more roast him in the skit around his last day.

Once back into speaking on the Second Digital Decade, Bill (along with other Microsoft spokesman) showed us several new products that were in the works at Microsoft. Some of these included the Windows Surface,  visual recogition devices, Silverlight (i.e. MSN and NBC partners to create the 2008 Olympics website), Windows Media Room, and much more. Bill spoke about the service "cloud" where rich devices will be service connected to bring high definition experiences with more natural user interfaces.

All in all, a very powerful presentation (oh yea, Slash even comes on stage in the end with a guitar solo to lead it out). Very good speech and well worth taking an hour out to watch it.

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