Live Blogging CES 2008 Keynote

Watch this article for our live blogging of Bill Gates keynote from the Bloghaus

• Just starting….
• boring CEA CEO intro
• Bill Gates into’d, video intro
• Can’t hear him… all better now
• Digital decade…history overview of their tech, handhelds, auto pcs…all showing their leadership
• His last keynote…middle of July moving to foundation
• Funny video montage of Bill and his friends looking at Bill’s last day at MSFT. Showing him working out embracing life in a new way. singing..rapping…auditioning…trying for a veep spot…hilarious.
• back to Bill…
• Next Digital decade about connecting people…run on the cloud, tv, car, pc, etc
• three elements of connecting
  • projection displays, avideo  and quality of rendering
  • devices will be connected to offer it up, services, organizing memories across devices
  • Power of the user interface…touch on windows pc’, the iPhone, etc. Pen and ink, tablet pc, come together to offer the complete experience.
• Vista 100 million users
• New form factor devices like ultra mobiles
• Windows mobile
• Windows Live- tour of Live. Mika Kramer ( I did a podcast with her )
  • giving a tour of Windows Live Hotmail
  • Photo Gallery
  • Live Spaces
• so far just an overview of what they are currently doing
• demoing  Surface
  • a touch application called freeride on Surface
• talking about Silverlight
• Olympics broadband MSFT technology partner with NBC
• Robbie Bach on stage…VP of Entertainment and Media
  • Xbox 17.7 million consoles sold
  • Xbox live trmendous growth
  • abc and disney bring shows via xbox Live
  • Media Center extender – Samsung introducing new extender
  • Mediaroom  , dvr anywhere
  • BT  telecom set top box fox xbox for ip tv
  • Zune – want to build the next social experience
  • Zune social tour, see what your friends are currently doing with music, their favorites, and buying music based on what your friends are doing… the full circle
  • car demo with Sync ( Ford
  • Zune syncs to the car..Windows mobile data synced to car
  • System upgrade to Sync..911 auto call when airbag deploys…update to Sync
  • Windows Mobile 20 Million phones..outsells iPhone, Blackberry
  • TellMe Demo ( voiced based search and purchasing over Windows Mobile) – Searching Movies because they spoke it, searching based on GPS. Pretty cool… she bought tickets for a friend and had it sent to her friends phone automagically
  • Best positioned to deliver connected entertainment
• Bill demoing Guitar Hero…rocking out
• Over….nothing new really…glad I stayed at the Bloghaus