Bill Gates delivers his last keynote at CES

Microsoft Chairman and visionary Bill Gates gave his final keynote speech at the 2008 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas on January 6.

Starting in July, Gates will be stepping away from Microsoft to focus on the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, a charity which he and wife are managing. He will retire from his full-time operations of Microsoft, the company he co-founded 32 years ago.

This is a right decision for him since Vista is not doing very well as what he is not expected, and companies like Apple and Google as well as open source platform especially Linux are all going after him. Apple's Mac OS X Leopard has getting a very competitive market share especially in Asia. Google's innovative softwares have penetrate some of the market and this has become nightmare to Microsoft; this can be seen very clearly with the Google-DoubleClick deal.

To leave Microsoft, at least, he saved his face. All the blames just push to Steve Ballmer ...and we can see the downfall of Microsoft empire.

Let's watch a video of Bill Gates' last day at Microsoft.