标题: 比尔.盖茨的向开发者告别演讲 [打印本页] 作者: coredump 时间: 6-6-2008 14:19 标题: 比尔.盖茨的向开发者告别演讲 FROM: http://www.nytimes.com/idg/IDG_8 ... 25745D0044BF9C.html
Gates Bids Adieu to Developers
It's fitting that Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates delivered his final publicly scheduled speech as a full-time Microsoft employee on Tuesday to a roomful of software developers.
Gates started as a developer 33 years ago when he co-foundedMicrosoft, and the developers of the Windows OS are a primary reasonthe company is an industry powerhouse.
The latter is not lost onGates, who kicked off the TechEd Developers conference Tuesday morning,addressing what is perhaps his company's most loyal audience. Heacknowledged their importance to his company. "The success of Microsoftreally is due to our relationship with developers," he said.
Gates spoke only briefly about his July 1 transition to spending most of his time at The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, calling it "a bit abrupt."
"Itwill put me in new territory," he said. "That's the first time I'vereally changed my career since I was 17 years old. I've been completelyimmersed in software."
Aside from that mention of his upcomingcareer change, the speech was textbook Gates, who for more than 30years has been the face of Microsoft and the one responsible for layingout its future vision. On Tuesday he did more of the same, outliningfuture directions for application development and services, the latterbeing a more recent topic of interest for his company.
On theformer, Gates unveiled Microsoft's future direction applicationmodeling, part of Project Oslo, Microsoft's application-developmentplan for making it easier for developers to build SOAs(service-oriented architectures). SOAs allow the underlying softwarerunning a company's network to communicate with software and pieces ofsoftware outside the firewall using standard network and applicationinterfaces to create composite applications.
Microsoft will givedevelopers their first look at Oslo, which will add a commonarchitecture for visually modeling applications in different Microsoftsoftware products, in October at the Professional DevelopersConference, Gates said.
"We're taking the kind of models you'reseeing rising in specific domains like software management in SystemCenter, data design in SQL Server ... and [putting] them into onemodel-driven space," he said. "In some ways, it speaks to the dreamsabout a [central application] repository people have had for decades."
As for services, Gates articulated perhaps more clearly than ever before Microsoft's plans to compete with companies like Google and Amazon.comto provide the industry's largest data centers for hosted services.Microsoft has been late to embrace a hosted-services business model,but has been forced by competition to move more quickly or miss outaltogether on new Web-based business models.
"We're takingeverything we do at the server level and saying we will have a servicethat mirrors that exactly," Gates said. "It's getting us to think aboutdata centers at a scale that we haven't thought of before... [tocreate] a mega-data center that Microsoft and only a few others willhave."
Gates also highlighted Microsoft's flagship Webtechnology, the Internet Explorer (IE) browser, which has been an assetand a curse for the company over the years. While it allowed Microsoftto secure its dominant position in Web-browsing technology, it alsotriggered Microsoft's U.S. antitrust woes, something that haunts thecompany to this day. IE also has taken a hit in the past several yearsas MozillaFirefox, an open-source browser, has gained a loyal following, forcingMicrosoft to step up development and make its own product moreinnovative.
Gates revealed that beta 2 of the next version of IE,IE 8, will be available in August. He also stumped for what has beenhis pet interest during his years at Microsoft natural human-interfacetechnology that allows people to interact with computers in wayssimilar to how they interact with each other. Last week, Microsoftrevealed that the next version of Windows, Windows 7, will includetouchscreen technology, a fact he mentioned in his talked.
Healso reiterated his vision for mini, tablet PCs that allow people to"write" and use other nature interfaces such as speech-recognitiontechnology. Another futuristic technology Gates has promoted atMicrosoft is robotics, and he made this interest part of the finaldiscussion of his comments Tuesday. He welcomed onto the stage a Ph.D.candidate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the "Ballmer-bot," a robot made to imitate and act like Steve Ballmer, Microsoft's CEO and Gates' long-time business partner, who is not attending TechEd.
"Developers,developers, developers, developers," the robot, developed usingMicrosoft Robotics Developer Studio product, repeated over and over, inan homage to Ballmer's famous rant. The robot also raised his arm,showing how he has the ability to "throw eggs," according to the MITstudent controlling his movements.作者: coredump 时间: 6-6-2008 14:19
周二在"TechEd Developers"大会上，微软董事会主席比尔·盖茨(Bill Gates)面对满屋的开发人员，发表了退隐前的最后一次公开演讲。