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Good morning.
It's great to be back at Comdex in Las Vegas.
There are a lot of really big milestones this year. Microsoft celebrated its 20th year anniversary. I turned forty years old. That means for the majority of my life I've had the same job, same job title. When I started out it was tough being young, I couldn't rent a car, people wanted to have meetings in bars I couldn't go in.
Now, I go into review meetings on the products, and these hip programmers are making jokes about "Friends" and "ER" and things I just don't understand, so maybe I'm a little too old. I told Jay Leno that I was turning forty and he suggested that maybe I'm the Mick Jagger of the software industry. And I'm still trying to figure out, is that a compliment or what does that mean?
Well, I could spend the next 60 minutes talking about Windows 95. So I thought I'd ask, are there people here who have not heard of Windows 95?
(Laughter)
It looks like maybe we can stop running our ads now.
What I do want to talk about is how personal computers have helped knowledge workers. What have they done to make those jobs more effective?
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