Gates at the Office

Bill Gates (eerily color-coordinated with the backdrop) addressed the assembled developers this morning on the final day of the company's first Microsoft Office System Developer Conference. (See our story earlier this week for more details.) Among other things, he talked briefly about the next version of Office, saying the company is making a "big move toward built-in workflow capabilities."

Gates also had a little fun recounting the incident at the World Economic Forum, where some journalists picked up some of his doodles, mistook them for Tony Blair's, and called in handwriting experts and psychologists who concluded, based on the scribbling, that the prime minister was "struggling to concentrate" and "not a natural leader."

Setting the record straight, tongue in cheek, Gates showed a parodied version of his doodles, with spoof scribbles such as, "So hungry -- need cheeseburger," "I miss Clippy," and "Why does Bill Clinton get to sit next to Angelina Jolie?"

See coverage of the speech by CNet News.com, and read the official Microsoft transcript here.

Posted by Todd Bishop at February 4, 2005 06:19 PM