Gates gives COMDEX a somnolent start
WinNetMag | at | by Mike
Following the triumphant Microsoft Professional Developers Conference (PDC) 2003, at which Microsoft Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates introduced the next major Windows version (code-named Longhorn) to an eager crowd of 7000 developers, last night Gates did what so many people have done after such an obvious success: He stumbled badly, delivering a sleepy and plodding keynote address to a stunned crowd at the COMDEX 2003 trade show in Las Vegas, Nevada. The speech was Gates's 20th COMDEX keynote address and a time for reflection. But for people who were hoping to hear a bit of Microsoft vision, the keynote was a disappointment, concentrating primarily on the progress Microsoft has made fixing the software problems the company is largely responsible for.