Bill has his last word

On Tuesday, June 3, attendees of TechEd Developers 2008 in Orlando, Florida, witnessed a historic event. A modest man with glasses and a familiar slightly wrinkled shirt spoke to them with his last public speech as head of the largest IT company in the world, which he had been building for 33 years. July 1, Bill Gates will start working at Microsoft only "on the fifth part of the rate", and the rest of the time he will devote to a charitable foundation with his wife.



Of course, the moment was somewhat blurred by the fact that Bill Gates’s “last speech” already seemed to have been uttered at CES in January, but no one began to attach much importance to this.



Speaking to an audience of 5,000, Bill once again said that the company owes its success only to close cooperation with developers, whose representatives made up the majority of those present in the hall. In addition, he shared some of the details of Microsoft’s future strategy.



For example, Gates spoke about the so-called Project Oslo - a whole direction in software development, which is focused on the easy creation of applications built on a service-oriented architecture (SOA). Anyone who wants to be able to feel for Microsoft’s work in this area will be at the PDC 2008 conference in October.

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It was also said about the plans of MS to build data centers for hosting web applications, not inferior in terms of counterparts from Google and Amazon.com. After that, Gates talked a little about the next version of Internet Explorer, the second beta of which will be released in August, and about Windows 7.





Bill invited the graduate student from MIT to the stage with the Ballmer-bot he created - a robot imitating the behavior of Steve Ballmer. The robot traveled around the scene screaming "Developers!" Developers! ”And showed how he can throw eggs (by the way, you can too ).



The full video recording of the TechEd intro can be viewed here .