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Bill Gates Keynote: Microsoft Tech?Ed 2008 – Developers Remarks by Bill Gates, Chairman, Microsoft Microsoft Tech?Ed 2008Orlando, Fla. June 3, 2008 BILL GATES: Good morning and welcome to Tech?Ed. This is the first year that we broke Tech?Ed into two sections, the section this week, which is just for developers, and a section next week, which is focused on IT. When we did that, we thought wed get about 4,000 developers to the conference, and so weve been very pleased that theres over 6,000 people signed up and attending the events this week. So, a huge response, a lot of exciting new things that youre going to get a chance to see. I really enjoy coming to this conference because Im a developer. Writing code in new and better ways is really what drives the progress of our industry: the ability to develop new user interfaces, the ability to connect up to all the sites out there on the Web, the ability to let people view data in the way they want to view it. And development really is changing. The tools are getting better all the time. Today, were going to take a glimpse at the various aspects of that, and see what were doing, but, of course, the center of this conference is your opportunity to go to the breakouts and give us feedback and tell us what you like about what were doing, tell us what youd like to see us do differently. We really value the great interaction that takes place at this event. Well, for me this event is also a milestone. Its my last public speech as a full-time chairman of Microsoft. July 1 is when I make a change. Ill go from being full-time at Microsoft and part-time on the work of my foundation to doing it the other way around, full-time on the foundation and part-time with my Microsoft work. Now, thats the first time Ive really changed my career since I was 17 years old and just completely immersed in software and the unbelievable ways that software, together with the microprocessor, has created new things, including the personal computer