Bill Gates Speaks Out About Windows 8 [VIDEO]

Bill Gates wants you to get jazzed about Windows 8. In a video Microsoft posted this morning, the company's chairman and former CEO preached about the new operating system and how important it is to Microsoft's future.

Gates, who stepped down as Microsoft CEO in 2000 and wound down his day-to-day activity with the company in 2006 to devote himself full-time to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, speaks enthusiastically about the potential of Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8, and repeatedly stressed how high the stakes are for Microsoft.

"This is an absolutely critical product," Gates says. "It takes Windows into the world of touch, low-power devices -- really giving people the best o…
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