BILL GATES演讲搞笑不断

ANNOUNCER: Ladies and gentlemen, Chairman and Chief Software Architect of the Microsoft Corporation, Mr. Bill Gates. (Applause.)

BILL GATES: Thank you. My wife and I were certainly thrilled to be named persons of the year for our work with the foundation, and to share it with Bono. The competition, Im sure, was quite rough, as it always is. Kids probably would have voted for J.K. Rawlings. Im sure Mother Nature was a choice that almost got it. In fact, probably if there had been one more hurricane, Mother Nature would have been on the cover. For a lot of reasons, Im glad that didnt happen.

Another past winner was the PC itself; all the way back in 1982, it was recognized that this was something phenomenal, that this would really change the world. And that was when the PC was just at the beginning. Microsoft had MS-DOS, we didnt have graphics interface, and we had just started to build up the software industry around the work that were doing. And over the last 24 years, its been quite phenomenal whats grown out of that. And what I want to share tonight is a little bit of glimpse of how that will keep revolutionizing itself, and moving faster than ever before with the magic of software connected to the innovation of our partners.

The Digital Decade
Now, we talk about this as the decade of Digital Lifestyles, the decade of Digital Workstyles. That means that all these tools are becoming mainstream. And its not just one application that makes it happen. Its not just banking or advertising, or filling out your tax return, or even instant messaging, its the fact that as you adopt those things they really go together, and it becomes more and more familiar to work in that fashion.

2005 was a very big year. A big year for the personal computer, growth of over 11 percent in Windows PCs, a big year with the introduction of the Xbox 360 that weve been building up to for over five years. But this next year, in some ways, is probably even bigger. This is the year that [Windows] Vista, Office 12 and many other products will come out, and the realization of [Windows] Media Center as a volume mainstream product will really be clear to everyone in the marketplace. Consumers are getting more and more connected. Theyre getting richer experiences, and software is really at the center of that.

I thought I would start off and show a scenario that we think will be real by the end of the Digital Decade, so within the next four years or so, this will be something we think will actually be realistic. Lets start off, lets say were at home in the morning. Weve got a screen here that shows some of the information that we care about. It comes up and its kept up to date. We just touch it. Weve got some of the kids drawings here. We can just grab those, move those around, pick different pictures that we want. We see the time of day here. All very simple to work with.

Down here weve got a little bit of a map, and because everyone in the family has decided that theyre willing to share their location with the rest of the family, we can see here on the map where mom left early and headed off to that soccer game. We see the family schedule there. So, were able to track everybody and know whats going on. Here weve got a connection up to our video, and so the latest news information has been categorized. It picks the ones that would be of interest to us, and it actually lets us navigate. So, here I can pick a particular show, news item, thats relevant to the work that I do, and I can see theres been a storm here, its interrupting the supply chain of a lot of different companies, probably including mine. That could be a real challenge. So, Ill click this button here and say, I would like to track that topic. I would like to continue to watch that video clip, and so as I head in to work that video has now been connected up to my cell phone, and I can watch that as Im getting into the car and heading off to do my work.

When I arrive there, Ive got a nice desktop screen. You can see its got a lot of area. We think this will be very important. You want to have more information that you can just glance at and work with in a very simple way. The idea of a big screen that uses your full field of vision makes sense to us. Now, of course, instead of using a password, Ill just use my fingerprint here, so Im authenticated in a more reliable way. I see a lot of different information here, including that news story that I was tracking. I go ahead and set up a little conference call thats going to have a lot of people talking about this problem. And so we can see here our Chief Operating Officer is online, our VP of Operations is only connected up through voice. Were talking through the issue. There is the article there, people are annotating that, seeing how it affects us. Ive actually got here on my Tablet PC, thats really logically just part of this screen one PC. Ive got a little chart here, and so what I would like to do is go ahead and go in and select that, say, OK, this is a chart that I think is relevant, and I can drag it up here, I can either move it to my desktop, or I can move it into this video conference. So, Ill go ahead and drop it there, and well sit and talk about this thing. And say, OK, whats going on with it.