Bill Gates focused largely on future innovations to come out of Microsoft as he presided over <A HREF="http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/11/13/Gates-oversees-his-last-annual-meeting-as-chairman_1.html?source=rss&url=http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/11/13/Gates-oversees-his-last-annual-meeting-as-chairman_1.html">his last annual shareholders meeting as full-time chairman,</A> leaving his colleagues to address questions about the threat from Google's Android, piracy in China, and the affects of the European Commission's antitrust ruling.
Gates is in the process of shifting his time away from running the software giant and toward contributing more time to his charitable foundation. Next year, he'll serve only part-time as chairman of Microsoft. Gates and other executives addressed a crowd of about 500 people at the meeting, held in downtown Seattle on Tuesday.