Microsoft chairman Bill Gates opened the Comdex trade show yesterday, and got a chance to hawk some upcoming products. Furthermore, Gates looked a few more miles down the road ahead, according to this story at Xbox365:

Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates opened the big COMDEX trade show in Las Vegas by predicting that computer technology will soon overcome many of its current limitations. In the decade ahead I can predict that we will provide over twice the productivity improvement that we provided in the '90s, he was quoted as saying. Gates also took the opportunity to plug the tablet PC his company plans to launch late next year as well as the Xbox video game console it will launch later this week.

Not sure exactly how the Xbox video game console fits into increasing productivity, but there you have it.