I just watched the keynote here at the ODC given by Bill Gates:

It was very interesting to hear him talking about the future of computing in general but then also focus in on how it relates to the office platform.  I was surprised at how much of his "how we'll work in the future" is already happening.  A couple raw notes from the presentation:

• They kept calling the Office Ribbon the "Fluent UI" - I must have missed that memo?
• xobni was shown during the keynote... guess I should go download it now..
• They also announced a new version of Office Live Small Business that will be available in Winter 2008.  I saw a lot of interesting slides go by on that one - I'll definitely have to take a look.   http://dev.officelive.com
• FedEx presented during the Keynote but it came across like a sales pitch.  It left me thinking... what can brown do for you?

At the very end they had 1/2 an hour for Q&A with Bill so I decided, why not?  How often do you get to ask the Man a question?  Unfortunately, I was next in line when they ran out of time.  Maybe next time :-)