In a video featuring Bill Gates presented to the CES crowd, the Microsoft CEO said goodbye to the largest tech trade show in the United States Sunday night in Las Vegas. Featuring cameo appearances from Brian Williams, Jay-Z, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Al Gore, Jon Stewart, Steven Spielberg and George Clooney, the video showed Bill Gates rapping, lifting weights, and pleading with U2 to be included in the band. The normally business-as-usual crowd filled the auditorium with laughter.

Gates was serious during his keynote outlining Microsoft’s future of “Windows everywhere”. Not a new concept, one that has been said before many times in various fashion, Gates impressed to the Las Vegas crowd that from high-definition movies on the Xbox to its new Sync product that allows cell phones, digital music players, and PDAs to all integrate into the vehicles sounds system seamlessly, Microsoft would be part of everyones daily life where ever they go. Unfortunate for Microsoft, it chose Ford and it’s lack-luster selling inventory to be the platform for Sync. With 18 months of negative sales (sans two months,) Ford has ignored a very successful boycott of its products and Microsoft may be stuck with a Edsel for Sync.

Microsoft’s outgoing CEO, to retire in July, showed of its table-sized Surface to the crowd and how simple it would be to design a snowboard and then easily put it on a smartphone by simply placing it on the table. At nearly 15k per table, don’t get your hopes up that your local snowboard store will have this custom shop before you next time you stroll in.

Lacking any true innovative ideas, Bill Gates once again proved why Microsoft is the butt of jokes and garners little respect from most in the tech world. With Apple’s market share nearing 10%, the iPhone surpassing Windows Mobile in just a mere six months, and the iPod still the killer digital music player, Gates simply ignored the company he co-founded mistakes and offered no true exciting future for it. Gates, desiring to leave Redmond to help people in undeveloped countries, one wonders who’s going to help Microsoft.