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Microsoft at International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2010 | |
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| Time: 20:28 EST/01:28 GMT | News Source: Microsoft | Posted By: Jonathan Tigner | ||
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Steve Ballmer, chief executive officer of Microsoft, and Robbie Bach, president of the Entertainment & Devices Division, deliver the pre-show keynote address in Las Vegas to kick off the 2010 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES). Coverage begins on Jan. 6, 2010, at approximately 6:30 p.m. PST with the live, streaming keynote. The Microsoft 2010 CES Newsroom will be updated throughout CES with the latest news, videos, photos and press information from Microsoft and its partners. |
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| #1 By 89249 (70.177.97.243) at Wednesday, January 06, 2010 09:06:12 PM |
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Prob this link for those wanting to watch the Keynote live:
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/events/ces/ |
| #2 By 7754 (206.169.247.2) at Wednesday, January 06, 2010 10:42:55 PM |
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Ballmer's half of the keynote was awful; Bach's was marginally better. They have some great stuff to show off, but it's like they don't care about presentation at all.
I guess they must have some lottery or something internally to be the one to demo at these events? It's always someone new (for these events), and they're almost always bad or simply inexperienced presenters (not that I'm better!). It reminds me of Star Trek episodes--if there was someone you hadn't seen before and they had a speaking part, you knew they were going to die soon. If Microsoft is going to put new folks on their national stage, they had better prepare, prepare, prepare, and prepare some more, then start over again with an audience and coach, then start over again while throwing them curveballs. Much of the "new guy" demo (with Ballmer) was just awkward, and sometimes painful to watch. Also, every important point of the keynote was on PressPass in advance of the actual keynote, written in past tense, like: "During his keynote Ballmer highlighted...." Just poor form, all-around. |
| #3 By 89249 (64.207.240.90) at Thursday, January 07, 2010 08:52:19 AM |
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Agreed blu.
Honestly whomever was the marketing firm or group who helped put that together should be shot. The Seth Meyers bits were absolutely horrible. It was like my grandpa came up with the jokes. Useless. The WMC part was decent but could have been done tons better. The HP Video was roflwtf. I hope HP didn't pay much for that. Bach was pretty solid though imo. Some of the "live action" discussions about the games would have been better done through videos. In all I'm excited about the new cable card.... cards. Decent slate computers with real horsepower being released. And I frankly see Nattal being a huge advance in user input soon. |
| #4 By 1896 (68.153.171.248) at Thursday, January 07, 2010 09:56:25 AM |
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Cable Cards are really cool but.... I called AT&T about U-Verse a couple of days ago and they stated that Cable Card are not supported; Comcast support them but only the ones to be placed in the TV and not in the computers?!?!?!?! Btw the "installation" is $90; pushing a card in a slot $90 seems a profitable job to me.
As for the keynote I agre with you all: boring, not well prepared; I was not impressed at all about these new Tablet/Slate: the HP seemed very small to be a real Tablet and too complicated to be a sliding picture frames. In spite of the majority of people who found BG presentations boring I liked them; at least he was inspired, maybe the things envitioned did not became reality but the guy believed in them, Yesterday everybody was just playing a script....... |
