Mindful of the past and optimistic about the future, Bill Gates opened the Comdex trade show in Las Vegas this year with an overview of Microsoft's efforts to deal with some of today's most-pressing IT problems. In his Nov. 16 speech, Microsoft's chairman and chief software architect talked about anti-spam, security, and search software, and then something new: seamless computing. It was Gates' twentieth consecutive year at Comdex--a milestone he recognized by displaying a slide from 1983 that appeared, as it did back then, backwards.
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