Microsoft Leadership Virtual Pressroom: Video Highlights

Microsoft Employee Town Hall - June 27, 2008

Employees Welcome Gates (00:22)
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer introduces Chairman Bill Gates at the Employee Town Hall. June 27, 2008

Download: Zune-quality (.wmv) | Broadcast-quality (.mpeg)Gates - Starting Microsoft (00:17)
Bill Gates describes how he and co-founder Paul Allen started Microsoft with the dream that software would be important one day.

Download: Zune-quality (.wmv) | Broadcast-quality (.mpeg)Ballmer - Microsoft Vision (00:21)
CEO Steve Ballmer describes Bill’s vision of a computer on every desk and in every home.

Download: Zune-quality (.wmv) | Broadcast-quality (.mpeg)Gates - Microsoft Leadership (00:51)
Gates describes the opportunities ahead for Microsoft’s leadership.

Download: Zune-quality (.wmv) | Broadcast-quality (.mpeg)Ballmer - Microsoft Culture (00:37)
Steve Ballmer talks about how Bill Gates has instilled a culture of intensity, tenacity and passion at Microsoft.

Download: Zune-quality (.wmv) | Broadcast-quality (.mpeg)Ballmer - Changing the World (01:14)
Steve Ballmer thanks Bill Gates for the opportunities Microsoft employees have to change the world and realize their true potential.

Download: Zune-quality (.wmv) | Broadcast-quality (.mpeg)Gates - The people he worked with (02:04)
Bill Gates describes what has made working at Microsoft so special to him: smart people, making an impact in the world and having fun every day.

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Video and Highligths Bill Gates: Looking Back, Moving Ahead

Gates: Looking Back. Moving Ahead (15:14)
On June 27, Bill Gates transitions from his day-to-day role at Microsoft to focus more on his work with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Friends, family and Microsoft leaders look back - and ahead - on his amazing journey

Download: Zune-quality (.wmv) | Broadcast-quality (.mpeg)Clip - Gates on the Magic of Software (0:30)
Bill Gates on how the company's focus on the magic of software helped realize the ambition of putting a computer on every desktop and in every home

Download: Zune-quality (.wmv) | Broadcast-quality (.mpeg)Clip - Ballmer & Gates on the Computing Revolution (00:36)
Steve Ballmer and Bill Gates comment on the amazing advancement and accomplishments the computing revolution have brought to the world

Download: Zune-quality (.wmv) | Broadcast-quality (.mpeg)Clip - Mundie: Future of Computing (00:31)
Craig Mundie describes moving beyond the point and click model of computing to interacting more naturally with machines

Download: Zune-quality (.wmv) | Broadcast-quality (.mpeg)Clip - Ozzie: Microsoft's Vision (00:25)
Ray Ozzie on building experiences which bring together the power of the Internet with the magic of software across a world of devices

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Background and B-roll

Ozzie : If You Can Imagine It, You Can Build It (00:42)
Ray Ozzie discusses why people like he and Bill Gates got into building software, and how software is a pliable medium

Download: Zune-quality (.wmv) | Broadcast-quality (.mpeg)Mundie: Long-Term Bets (00:31)
Craig Mundie describes how Gates influenced his thinking about making long-term technology bets and sticking with those bets

Download: Zune-quality (.wmv) | Broadcast-quality (.mpeg)Allen: A Computer on Every Desktop (00:22)
Paul Allen describes watching the evolution of the computer in every home and on every desktop vision

Download: Zune-quality (.wmv) | Broadcast-quality (.mpeg)Gates Demonstrates Microsoft Surface (01:43)
Bill Gates demonstrates Microsoft Surface

Download: Zune-quality (.wmv) | Broadcast-quality (.mpeg)Broll - Historic Photos (01:43)
Photographs and short video from Microsoft archives of Bill Gates over his career at Microsoft

Download: Zune-quality (.wmv) | Broadcast-quality (.mpeg)Broll - Microsoft Campus (00:37)
Footage of the Microsoft campus

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