The Tech Ed Conference is in full swing, and Investintech is already seeing –and hearing, some interesting things from the conference floor.
In his last public speech as Microsoft’s Chief Software Architect (CSA), Bill Gates took over 6,000 software developers at Microsoft Tech Ed 2008 in Orlando on a walk down memory lane and then outlined his vision for the future of application development.
Describing himself as a developer at heart, Gates provided a brief look back at how far software development has come since he co-founded Microsoft over 30 years ago. He recalled fondly the days of working in DOS and writing software programs that only required 6k of memory.
Those days are of course long past now and with Gates transitioning out of a full time role at Microsoft on July 1, he devoted the majority of his keynote to the future.
The central theme here and for all of Tech Ed for that matter, is that cloud computing is the next big thing.
