Live coverage of Bill Gates CES keynote
By Paul Boutin 
posted Jan 4th 2006 9:27PM
posted Jan 4th 2006 9:27PM
6:25pm We're kicking back in the Engadget VIP balcony at the Hilton. Paul is on the keys, Ryan on camera. We've just gotten the warning that things are about to start.
6:34 Still waiting!
6:36 The thumpy music is getting louder and the big-screen graphics busier, so we must be close.
6:37 Ladies and gentlemen .... Gary Shapiro, president of the Consumer Electronics Association. He's giving us the stats on the show. IT'S REALLY BIG!
6:42 The intro just keeps going. Now there's a video about Microsoft's vision. See the comments to this post for links to live video streams.
6:44 Ladies and gentlemen ... Bill Gates!
Bill is glad to be named Person of the Year along with Melinda and Bono. But he remembers when the PC got the award in 1982. Mostly straight quotes from Bill from here on ...
"We've talked about this as the decade of digital lifestyle, the decade of digital workstyle. It's not just one application that makes it happen. It's the fact that as you adopt these things, they really go together.
"I thought I'd start off and show a scenario that we think will be real in the next four years.
(demo of home panel touch screen with family pictures, calendars, a map)
"The family has decided to share their location with the other members of the family, so we're able to track that. Here we've got some news that picks the items that are of interest to us. There's a storm here that's interrupting the supply chain of a lot of companies including mine. I touch the clip to say I'd like to track that video on my way to work, so it's transferred to my cellphone as I go to work.
"At work .. instead of using a password I use my fingerprint. I see a lot of information including that news item I've been tracking. We set up a conference call of people who are tracking this issue. Here's the article annoted to see how it affects us.
"On my tablet ... what I'd like to do is select a chart and move it to my desktop or drag it into this video conference. It was actually created, I see, by Thomas Anderson, so I'm interested in bringing him into the conference...
"Toward the end of the day I get notice that I need to leave earlier for the airport to make my flight ...
"When I get to the airport, I put my phone down on this table, and now I have my full desktop. I put this business card on the table. It sees it and recognizes it. I've got a little note I made during the conversation. I can see the information being downloade to my phone ... added to my contact list.
(Bill gets a press release flashed to the screen for his fingerprinted approval)
"As I work, the screen knows exactly how much time I have to work before I have to leave .... It's a very simple thing to have all these devices connected. The phone is very different; the idea of meetings is very different ... that's because we've taken software and put it at the center. We see that in so many areas. I think five or six years ago if you'd said software would be so important in making phone calls, music, photos, TV better.... this really is a symptom of the great progress we have here in the digital decade.
(AT THIS POINT BILL IS REHASHING STUFF YOU ALREADY KNOW - SOFTWARE WILL LET US DO MORE AND CONNECT PEOPLE ETC ETC)
"It only catches up to us in the way it changes the way entertainment gets done .. TV where we pick the news segments we want. We find the video that wouldn't have been available in a broadcast system. A huge component of this is the investment we've made in the Windows platform.
(BILL IS GOING TO SHOW THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE "2-FOOT INTERFACE," AKA PC, AND THE "TEN-FOOT INTERFACE" IN THE LIVING ROOM)
DEMO: WINDOWS VISTA. Aaron Woodman from Microsoft takes over.
"QuickTabs. Tabbed browsing with a twist." LIVE PREVIEWS OF DIFFERENT TABS. HEAVY USE OF TRANSPARENCIES AND MOTION IN THE INTERFACE.
PARENTAL CONTROLS ON GAMES. "As a parent, you can decide if you're comfortable with your child playing that game on that PC."
TALKING POINTS ALERT: Aaron has used the phrase "putting consumers back in control" a good half dozen times in the past ten minutes.
Once nice touch: Vista never loses the original copy of a photo, video, or whatever that you've edited. Years later you can go back and get it. (Yes, we know our iPhoto does that.)
Bill is coming back with Van Toffler from MTV to talk about what they're doing. A new venture, URGE, between MTV and Microsoft. Van puts up a "separated at birth" photo of Bill and Napoleon Dynamite.
Van: "URGE will offer a customized relationship to music, a sense of musical discovery ... over 100 radio stations .. a chance to learn about the roots of songs and lyrics ... a chance to interact with the artists. You can make URGE the soundtrack to your own event. It will be programmed by music fans for music fans. Subscribers will tell us what sucks. We will engage an army of music professionals, bloggers, musicians, etc ... Take note, we are trying something new with URGE, like Music Television was twenty years ago. And it certainly needed improvement -- can you say Flock of Seagulls five times a day?" (Hey, we still play FoS on the iPod)
Justin Timberlake track is interrupted by J-Tim himself walking onstage. "Urge offers artists like myself a new way to reach music fans with a ton of options to play, interact with, and buy music. When my new album is released this year ... URGE and I will be doing some new and creative things together. Thank you for having me, pleasure to be here."
Gates back on the mic:
"We've wanted to get tablet capability down to the mainstream of tablet PCs. Gateway is making a tablet at very much a mainstream price. It will be a simple decision to say yes, I want to get that on-tablet capability. Vista ... adjusts automatically to your handwriting style, so over time it gets better and better. Consuming it onscreen instead of on paper becomes better. Driving that to the mainstream is something we're very committed to.
"Another thing we're committed to is Windows Mobile .. 93 operators in 55 countries ...
"This one you've probably heard about - it's our partnership with Palm. This phone is amazing for single-hand operation. Based on the experience they had, they brought that to the Windows Mobile platform. This is on sale, starting tomorrow, ahead of schedule. They got approval from Verizion (EV-DO). Any sort of attachments, images, will be fantastic because of the bandwidth." Apparently the 700w ships tomorrow, according to Gates. Hmm!
"We'll have more devices coming out this year. One from Motorola is called the Q.
(Now Bill is showing a home VoIP phone. You can scroll through your buddy list and call them.)
7:30 "Let's now talk about TV. TV is a big activity and one where we see software really surprising people with what it can do. ... An individualized video stream ... ads can be target to you ... something that you won't want to skip over. As you get into a news show, the subjects you care about, you can get more info, and skip over others. You might have a ski resort you want to see every time you want to sit down to watch the nightly news whenever you want.
"It completely blows open the limitations that channels used to create. It becomes something easy for you to navigate and find. Not one TV here, and your Internet TV there. Personalization, choice, all these things that weren't possible. Last year we had very successful trials .. AT&T and Verizon are rolling out commercial deployments. This year these will scale up to really large numbers, and people will see it blows away the previous video platform.
"As that video comes into the home it will be viewable on ... every screen in the house. That's where Media Center comes in. That's the other special version of Windows, in addition to the tablet. We have 6.5 million copies out, but we're not stopping there.
"One of the partnerships that's going to be very important is our partnership with Intel. You're going to see another great example of this with VIIV. It rhymes with five and live. You're going to see a lot of information about breaktrhough technology that Intel enables -- 7.1 surround sound right on the chip, the dual core processor enabling that.
(Bill announces that DirectTV content will be available on Windows Media portable devices. A huge screen of media logos -- sky, Yahoo, NPR, Kodak....)
7:35 Joe Belfiore comes out to give a 15-minute Windows Media demo. First up: The Daily Show, as part of something called the Comedy Central Mother Lode. You can catch up on old episodes, see previews.
"Now I want to talk a little bit about hardware innovation. This is a PC from Averatec. It's very small, very light, runs Windows Media Center, has all the remote contols built in, with or without a tuner built in.
"Our idea was to create an experience that viewers could enjoy from the couch, or take with them on a portable device. This is the Toshiba Gigabeat. It has a 30G hard drive. You get about 4 hours of video playback time on the battery. (it's a Windows Portable Media Center with a widescreen mode)
"This is the movie Hitch, that we just purchased from the newly announced Starz Vongo service.
"Whether you get your content from broadcast and record it, or download it from the Internet, or created it yourself you have flexability...
"This is a new LG Electronics portable media center device. The thing about it is the killer widescreen format."
The demo of Windows Live is hard to describe in words. But we like the optional IM interface, and hey -- Joe's a Galactica fan.
Joe plays The Bourne Supremacy and shows how he can pop up transparent menus over the video to, for example, get a list of recent actors in the scene. He gets a quick bio of Franke Potente. "Everyone in the family isn't angry at me because I stopped the movie," and the content is up to date because it's online. Another demo shows a popup talking head of the producer explaining the scene.
Another demo: Managed copies. He can make a full disc image, or an HD copy or a portable movie file from a DVD.
"Now I'd like to talk about Windows ability to receive digital cable natively."
He slides a cable card into a PC card slot. "Today with a Media CEnter PC you have an analog connection or you can recieve digital content over the air. You can't get high-def just by plugging a cable in. You can't get ESPN or Showtime etc. All that will change. Attach the cable, slide in the access card," and you can even get premium content. Demo of Windows Vista Media Center playing The Aviator HDTV that 'has never left the digital form"
"Now I'm going to wrap up by giving you a look at the revised interface." Lots of transparencies and moving interfaces that take advantage of the HD pixel space.
7:55 Peter Moore -- Mister Xbox 360 -- comes on to talk about gaming.
"It's five years ago today, from this very stage, that we used CES to unveil Xbox. We envisioned a community connected through Xbox Live.
"Halo 2 recorded the greatest day in retail with 122 million dollars in sales in one day. We were the thought leader.
"Fast forward to Xbox 360. We're moving from thought leaders to market leaders.
"I'm pleased to announce that Xbox achieved an unprecendented global launch.
(We'll skip to the bottom line: They've added another manufacturer to try to keep up with demand, and everyone's jumping on the content bandwagon. You guys know this stuff.)
HERE's THE NEWS: An Xbox 360 external HD DVD drive is coming this year!
Al Bernstein comes on to talk about Fight Night Round 3. He brings out Bill G and Steve Ballmer to play Ali vs Frazier. We're chanting "Developers! Developers! Developers!" from the balcony, but truth be told Ballmer has an amazing amount of physical energy. It's impressive to see a guy that big bounce on his toes and shadow-box at Bill. "I've been training THIRTY YEARS for this!" But he lets Bill win the game anyway.
8:10 Bill alone onstage again. "We've seen a lot tonight, and I think a few themes stand out." 1) High Definition. 2) Partners. 3) "This all has to work across these devices. It's got to be user-centric. Software is providing power, but software has got to provide simplicity. Security, privacy, speech recognition .... all of this will fold into this platform."
"We're all going to have a lot of fun using these systems. Thank you."
8:12 The guy behind us: "That was the longest keynote EVER."
yay ... time to wear out my F5 key xD
i cant wait any longer!!! lets get this goin! w00t w00t
Watch it live: 300k
http://metahost.savvislive.com/microsoft/20060104/ces_billgates_keynote_20060104_300.asx
I bet the demo is flawless.
300kbps live webcast at http://engadget.com/2006/01/04/live-coverage-of-bill-gates-ces-keynote/
or www.microsoft.com for lower-qual streams
Live video stream from the Microsoft CES keynote: http://www.microsoft.com/events/executives/billgates.mspx
Not to cramp your style Engadget, but the MS website says they're doing a live webcast of Billy G's keynote address:
http://www.microsoft.com/events/executives/billgates.mspx
Oh yeah, he busts out the person of the year thing in the first sentence.
You can watch Gate's speech live:
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http://metahost.savvislive.com/microsoft/20060104/ces_billgates_keynote_20060104_56.asx
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http://metahost.savvislive.com/microsoft/20060104/ces_billgates_keynote_20060104_100.asx
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http://metahost.savvislive.com/microsoft/20060104/ces_billgates_keynote_20060104_300.asx
Live Video Stream?!?!
Where?! My F5 key is already getting busted by all this engadget CES coverage!!!
mplayer mms://livewm9.fplive.net/ffnet/dims06a
SO where is the link to the live video stream??
what... no quicktime stream?!
::rolls eyes::
Watch it live here is a link
http://www.microsoft.com/events/executives/billgates.mspx
I didn't know Bill had such a strong Midwestern accent: "Let's drage this over..."
Xbox 360 Leads the Way in High-Definition Entertainment
Just a month after the global launch of the new Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system, Gates discussed the products strong momentum in delivering high-definition hardware, games and digital entertainment experiences. Xbox 360 is on track to be the fastest-selling video game console ever, forecast to ship between 4.5 million and 5.5 million units worldwide by the end of June 2006.
Gates noted that Xbox 360 has also become a powerful application for high-definition television, adding that nine out of 10 Xbox 360 owners currently own or intend to purchase a high-definition television set.* He announced that more than 50 new high-definition Xbox 360 games will be available by June 2006.
Building on Xbox 360 leadership in high-definition experiences, the company announced plans to deliver a new Xbox 360 external HD DVD drive in 2006. The new drive will offer millions of Xbox 360 owners the ability to easily enjoy HD DVD movies and will provide consumers with even more choices for experiencing high-definition content, in either physical or digital form.
Using Xbox 360 and the Xbox Live service today, consumers are already able to access high-definition entertainment such as Xbox Live Arcade titles, game demos and high-definition movie trailers. Consumers can also use their Xbox 360 system to access high-definition television and movies from their Windows XP-based Media Center PC.
Gates keynote also showcased the momentum behind Xbox Live, announcing that more than half of all Xbox 360 owners are already connected to the online games and entertainment service, which boasts a worldwide community of more than 2 million members. He demonstrated Electronic Arts Inc.s forthcoming EA SPORTS Fight Night Round 3, scheduled to be available in February 2006, and announced that a free, playable high-definition demo of the game is now available at the Xbox Live Marketplace, a one-stop digital download center where consumers can access high-definition games, music and movie content from leading industry partners
wow, leave it to Microsoft to make a Vision Of The Future look so dull... Im gonna turn it off now because its making me feel like im at work...
^^^
thanks shacknews
Man, what a boring speaker! Bill Gates is no Steve Jobs (and Windows Media Streaming is no Quickime Streaming!)
Thank you all for those Video Links
Miracle of Modern Technology
Yes, we're well aware of the video feed. Some people prefer to read a summary in text (which can often be much faster), or to have our commentary.
Best, Ryan
Still waiting for the BSOD...
Windows Vista looks pretty cool.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
ohhh sidebar you silly dashboard rip you. "small apps or gadgets" = widgets. gotta say I prefer dashboard NOT sitting on my desktop stealing space.
I would love to be there for this.
Is Engadget looking for people to help them cover CES 2007?
Asher, i have a theory: Bill Gates and Stephen Hawking were once conjoined twins... in the operation that separated them, Hawking got the brain and Gates got the body. You can see the results here.
IE looks more like a firefox rip off...
I didn't know I was out of control of my computer.
HAHAHA, non-destructive image editing built in...seen that somewhereosx before.
"QuickTabs. Tabbed browsing with a twist." LIVE PREVIEWS OF DIFFERENT TABS."
Hmm...that doesn't sound anything like OmniWeb (http://www.omnigroup.com/images/images-5/features/tabs.png"QuickTabs. Tabbed browsing with a twist." LIVE PREVIEWS OF DIFFERENT TABS."
Hmm...that doesn't sound anything like OmniWeb (http://www.omnigroup.com/images/images-5/features/tabs.png)
Bittorrent and Napster-like Networks are fueling the musical edge of the digital revolution. Not any crappy MTV iTunes Rip-off.
Anyone else getting a fairly choppy feed? You'd think microsoft has enough money to pay for more bandwidth.
"IE looks more like a firefox rip off..."
Tabbed browsing came frome Opera.
UH, WTF IS JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE DOING
is anyone else reminded of the man behind the curtain in that 3rd pic? or just me?
yeah justin! microsoft is sooooooo cool!
um...yeah...
Justin Timberlake, are you freaking kidding?! No wonder the music industry is in such trouble--marketing music made for 13-year-old girls to 20-something-male geeks.
Justin Timberlake convinced me to buy Vista!
http://jveisdal.com
I'm mobblogging this.
24. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
ohhh sidebar you silly dashboard rip you. "small apps or gadgets" = widgets. gotta say I prefer dashboard NOT sitting on my desktop stealing space.
Apple stole the idea from Konfabulator.
"No, Steve, I think its more like we both have a rich neighbor named Konfabulator (Xerox), and you broke in to steal the TV set, and you found out I'd been there first, and you said. "Hey that's no fair! I wanted to steal the TV set!"
Justin is just going to de-flower Billy and then leave him.
Wow... Greenday, MTV and Napolian Dynomite?
Windows is so hip. As a suburban youth, I am so interested. Mission acomplished Bill.
Next time, try apealing to people who will actualy buy windows, you know, ones that are older than 15.
Boo at Justin Timberlake! That anti-man where they dig him up from.
The guy who did the Vista-bit is called Aaron Woodman.
Seems to me Bill can only focus on meetings, supply chains, contacts, and conferences. Bill, as a consumer I don't give a rats ass about any of those. Looks like my full transition to Apple is chiseled in stone now. At least Jobs speaks to us regular people and not the dill weeds in suits.
Man, you guys are doing an awesome job!
Am I trippin' or is Bill balding?
Hey! It's Sergey Brin on stage! :-)
38 -
I am well aware of where it came from, but apple integrated their theft into their OS long before longvist.
"Anyone else getting a fairly choppy feed? You'd think microsoft has enough money to pay for more bandwidth."
A little choppy, they should stream it at a higher bit rate.
HEy engadget guys can ya'll bring back some ZBox 360 for us.
Thanks,J?n! And thanks for the good words and links. Keep 'em coming.
Video camera scanning a business card? Hello? Note to Redmond: RFID. Look into it.
Windows Vista. Recommended configuration includes SLI video cards and 1TB of storage. Hardware vendors are eating this up.
Did the MTV guy actually say "old school"?
URGE, so that's where MTV has been hiding all the music videos they haven't been showing all these years.
Wow. Justin, I sold out long ago, Timberlake. How many post-teen girls are at CES?
Can someone buy Bill an athletic cut shirt or at least teach him to tuck it in?
Dull portion, at least they have a football update. Are they stalling so they can ship another Xbox 360 title for the close?
Comedy Central rules! King of the short attention span theater. (Obligatory old school reference.)
Tuning out with the "Windows Live" yawn fest. Goodnight Gracie.
WOW!
The Media Center/TV msn bot thing is truly impressive! I just hope it actually works in reality, because that is a very nice and unique idea.
Looks like OS X last year!!!! I'll say it again Looks like OS X last year!!!!!
Wait, HD-DVDs will let you copy them to a PC? Or a portable? For free? And BTW, are they having a direct connection to DirecTV now too?
oh dashboard you silly konfabulator ripoff you. Apple had a similar technology in earlier versions of the OS (pre X but you've probably never used it other than classic mode) it bombed because it was poorly implemented and apple didn't have a clear vision for it so they quickly dumped it. Konfabulator took the idea made it useful then apple tried it again and made it look pretty.
oh nondestructive image editing free in vista $300 in osx for aperture you.
fact of the matter is they all steal from each other. You try things if they work others will copy. Apple does it too. Just like spotlight, demoed by microsoft way back in 2001 and similar technology released in aug 04 by copernic so apple was 3rd to market with that one just the first with it totally built into the OS. That's just one of many examples. I use both mac and PC but dont feel the need to be a hopeless fanboy. Do your research matty and you'll realise apple isnt as innovative as most people claim, they just make them look pretty.
What is Peter Moore's (that XBox 360 guy) accent about?!
>32. Bittorrent and Napster-like Networks are fueling the >musical edge of the digital revolution. Not any crappy MTV >iTunes Rip-off.
oh really? certainly not for mainstream users. which, i would remind you, is who most of us are.
>49. 38 -
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>I am well aware of where it came from, but apple integrated >their theft into their OS long before longvist.
dashboard/konfabulator looks like the sidebar? are you blind? one is a specific BAR at the side of the screen. the other locks out the entire desktop when it comes up
>25. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
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>ohhh sidebar you silly dashboard rip you. "small apps or >gadgets" = widgets. gotta say I prefer dashboard NOT sitting >on my desktop stealing space.
small apps or gadgets have always been known as widgets. Apple simply used the industry name for them - much, indeed, like Microsoft used the name Windows as their own.
so, you would rather use dashboard, which locks out all your other apps while you're using your widgets? hmmm =) i'm sure the sidebar in vista will hide when you don't need it - if you want it to. just like the taskbar today.
WTF gotta buy the optical drive sepratly???!?!?!
Prob another freaking $200!!!
Ballmer just got his Ass whopped at some Fight Night!
Is there a link where I can download it?
That was a really good keynote, the media centre functions in Vista and Xbox 360 look excellent. Microsoft is back!
"..51. Thanks,J?n! And thanks for the good words and links. Keep 'em coming.."
Don't thank me, thank Scoble:)
http://scobleizer.wordpress.com
The "fight" was just about the most pathetic thing I've ever seen.
Called the Gigabeat "Windows Portal Media Player" back in May: http://www.mygigabeat.com/2005/05/toshiba-and-microsoft.html
Engadget: Got some more specs on the Gigabeat S series??? I guess it has 4hrs of video playtime, WMV etc...
Yawn, not really impressed. More transparency and transitions... welcome to Mac OS X Tiger a _year_ ago. And I'm sure by the time it actually ships, it will all be even older news. The only thing that seems new or nifty is the amount of integration with all of the Media Center stuff (like through the XBox).
I just hope Jobs announces some great media stuff using a newly updated Mac Mini on the 10th. And you know if he does, he'll do a better job of it than Gates. Gates just doesn't have the charisma towards the consumers. I'm sure he's great in meetings and with investors; he just doesn't have the "everyman" appeal.
Yawn.... wake me up next week when Steve's keynote starts.
The guys over at Gadgetell also live-blogged it. Check it out here... http://www.gadgetell.com/entry/428
I just love the fact when Joe was playing Bourne Supremacy, messed around with the onscreen menus and was like "Everyone in the family isn't angry at me because I stopped the movie"....well, they'll be bloody well annoyed with all those onscreen menus mate! I think it'll be even more annoying(!)
Here's a post I submitted anonymously to slashdot a few minutes ago:
It's what they are NOT saying that seems to "say it all!" The Palm 700w is here at last! Hooray, finally we can put that exciting Microsoft "Direct Push" technology through its paces...or can we? Maybe not.
What is the ONE thing missing from the new 700w pages on Palm's website? Any mention of security, policy enforcement, direct push...you know absolutely anything related to the "enterprise market" this device supposedly targets!
I am seeing all kinds of PR fluff...but have yet to find even ONE "online journalist" who have noticed this particular omission?
The most damning evidence of all comes directly from the new Palm 700w support pages: Introduction to ActiveSync and Exchange ActiveSync for Windows Mobile smartphones
And I quote from that oh-so-helpful article: "Note: The picture above shows the option to sync Tasks with the Exchange Server. This feature is not available on the smartphone out-of-the-box, but may become available through a software update. Check Palm Support for updates."
My personal favorite "under-reported story of 2005"? The fact that TODAYthe only way to experience Microsoft's much touted "Blackberry Killing" Direct Push technology is with a SYMBIAN PHONE!
I'm actually very impressed with the keynote.
The vision of how things will be after the next few years, whilst clearly still ideas, goes to show that Microsoft do have great forward thinking.
The people that are talking about how Vista's GUI just 'looks' like "tiger a year ago" don't seem to be really looking at the innovation in how the OS will work, it looks REMARKABLE - as someone who supports a lot of users, I can tell that the few problems that trouble most people with XP will be eliminated.
That typing into Start menu is great for people who think GUI's are troublesome and would much rather just typing commands... will make a lot of people much faster with their computers.
And finally all the great new stuff about Windows Media Player's library - everything I could have wanted improvements to be based on - the current library system is very old and difficult... but this is now far beyond even iTunes and will make a lot of ppl want to use it and probably leave the iPod (since it only works with iTunes).
I honestly can't understand how anyone thinks Apple's media offerings are anything like what we've seen recently of Media Center and it's future. FrontRow doesn't come close AT ALL!
Yeah Gates doesn't reach out to the consumer masses in his speech like Jobs tries to... but in my opinion his vision and abilities alone command the respect he receieves. I think he leaves the 'appealing to popular culture' up to others as shown by his level of unparticipation with the MTV bit and Justin's presence. Still, he looked like he was proud of it all.
I'm glad MTV are finally offering a good alternative to the iTunes music library - and with Microsoft's integration can finally take online content in a forward direction which is not what I feel when using iTunes!
I really don't know what's wrong with alot of you.
Hey let's criticize Bill Gates just because he's rich. Let's ignore the fact that he donates billions to charity, and will have all his money donated to charity when he dies. Let's also applaude Steve Jobs because he's not quite as rich, and because he's a turtleneck wearing hipster.
Gates' keynote wasn't meant for consumers. CES is a trade show, not a consumer electronics ogling fair. So yeah, he probably is targeting it to suits, and yeah it may be a little boring.
As for those who are saying Vista looks like OSX I disagree. It looks like an updated version of Windows. Some of the features in Vista may be borrowed from OSX but then again I'D WANT an OS designer to borrow good ideas from other designers. There's also alot of stuff in Vista that's new, not in OSX, and good. And before you start going and complaining that Microsoft is just stealing everything, look at a little thing called front row, and quite a few other things.
"8:12 The guy behind us: "That was the longest keynote EVER.:""
Bastard, give your pass to ANYBODY and they'll gladly sit through the latest innovations of a toaster due out in 2010
By the way... is it just me or does timberfake wear those light brown doc's at every PR opportunity?
"The forces beyond the grave say... yes"
Mr Bill Gates Great Work ! I Wish To See You (LIVE) :D
I Born In Iran I cant Come To Your Country And See You but i want What can I Do :(
GREAT WORK
@74: "Let's also applaude Steve Jobs because he's not quite as rich, and because he's a turtleneck wearing hipster."
I applaud Steve Jobs because he's duking it out, saving a company a few times here and there, and ... oh yeah ... and the real portable king of the last how many years??? iPod.
What's the only thing m$ has for me? Paul Allen and the Seahawks
anyone got the rerun?????
I want to watch it post-live...
"You've got the weight on me, I'll give you that," said Gates, who won the bought after knocking down Ballmer. An instant replay showed blood spurting from Frazier's mouth.
This is a very disturbing scence for me. Talking about bad taste and the world's richest man, Time's man of the year. I am not going to buy 360 for my kids.
Remeber Desk Accessories from the 128K Mac? Now they are rehashed and called widgets. BFD.
A presentation that matches this-with-that. Wow - these guys are falling further and further behind the leading edge - in fact their download spiral seems to be accelerating.
If you're looking for innovation, it's clear you won't find it from Microsoft.
"On my tablet ... what I'd like to do is select a chart and move it to my desktop or drag it into this video conference. It was actually created, I see, by Thomas Anderson, so I'm interested in bringing him into the conference..."
..... Thomas Anderson?
Is this Bill's cyrptic way of telling us what he has planned for us?
"78. anyone got the rerun?????
I want to watch it post-live..."
Some dodgy clips from the keynote, filmed on a digital camera here:
http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=110&blogid=4
*Disclaimer: I shot them...
Erm, that should have been: http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=110&blogid=4 not sure why a br tag ended up on the end of the link.
You can get the archive on Bill Gates' website http://www.microsoft.com/billgates
Any links to a WORKING webcast ? The one at Microsoft isnt recognised by the shitty mediaplayer on my mac ... Is Bill so boring ( he is ) that Microsft wont stream the keynote anymore ?
Last night was awesome... I don't want to switch to Mac now - unless I'm dual booting
Non-illegal DVD copying... did I hear that coming from Microsoft... please tell me it's true... "Play the DVD, which you copied to your hard drive before"...
Great... Great... I want Vista NOW! with HDTV... Uhmm does that come in a laptop?
The words that make this keynote so very fake.
"deliver, confidence, back in control" Pretty
sure well be hearing those exact words alot the
next few years....
I'm not looking forward to this. I feel that Vista is going to purely suck.... even more than WinXP.
MICROSOFT asta la VISTA!
-MATT
The whole 'x stole this idea from y' thing shows how many people are buying into the whole lets-patent-everything-including-the-letter-'e' ideology from "IP" corporations like Rambus "we invented DDR" Corp. and SCO "we own every OS" Corp.
Ideas are free in practice and should be in theory as well. Arguing over who owns general concepts like tabs and desktop objects/widgets is as silly as saying that these ideas become someones property when applied in a specific concept (in a browser, on the desktop, on a mobile phone.)
"I'm not looking forward to this. I feel that Vista is going to purely suck.... even more than WinXP."
Oh, MATT. Graduate from highschool get that EMT job and try not to break your -ing computer, you dolt. I feel that you're a moron who were drinking out of tippee cups when XP launched.
Why can't the idiots in the US go back to bitching about Chevy vs Ford, Calvin peeing on things and so forth?
wow! that was nearly two hours!
"You've got the weight on me, I'll give you that," said Gates, who won the bought after knocking down Ballmer. An instant replay showed blood spurting from Frazier's mouth.
This is a very disturbing scence for me. Talking about bad taste and the world's richest man, Time's man of the year. I am not going to buy 360 for my kids.""
I have no idea what any of that means. "Bought" "scence" ? I think hes trying to say that he has a problem with video game violence and this demonstration has made him decide not to buy a video game system for his kids. I'm sorry that boxing exists...but there are a million better reasons than that for not buying a 360.
Gadgets are not a rip. Actually Apple 100% ripped the idea of dasboard from Konfabulator that has been around long before Apple desided to steal it. So Apple are the biggest losers in this case.
Ideas are free in practice and should be in theory as well
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ahh.. well it sure would be nice to have an R&D budget of : $0.00 hmm?
good luck finding people to work for free.
Good archive of the live feed. Are other keynotes available to view?