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Bill Gates gives last speech
Talks to developers about data centers
Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates has given his last public speech, according to the New York Times.
Speaking to the TechEd Developers Conference Gates unveiled Microsoft's future direction application modelling, part of Project Oslo, Microsoft's application-development plan for making it easier for developers to build service-oriented architectures.
He said that Microsoft's plans to compete with companies like Google and Amazon.com to provide the industry's largest data centers for hosted services. Gates said that the beta 2 of the next version of IE, IE 8, will be available in August.
He also shared the stage with a Ballmer bot which was made to imitate and act like Steve Ballmer, Microsoft's CEO and Gates' long-time business partner.
It basically shouted 'developers, developers, developers, developers,' while having an arm to throw eggs at demonstrators.