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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Bobbie Johnson, technology correspondent

Gates grins and bears it

Jack's filed his dispatch on Gates' keynote speech at CES - and you can read the whole thing here.

It was a laugh a minute in the Las Vegas Hilton last night when Microsoft chairman and chief software architect Bill Gates gave his seventh annual keynote speech to open the giant Consumer Electronics Show (CES). But perhaps it was more fun for the audience than for the software mogul they had queued hours to see.

The surprise presentation cast Gates as the guest in a version of the popular US chat show, this time retitled Not So Late Night with Conan O'Brien, and true to form, the acerbic comic scored some notable hits.



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