Microsoft at 2012 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES): Keynote

What a great start start it was. Have a look at this video at the end (if you have silverlight installed).


Here are few interesting lines from the speech i liked
  1. "Metro, Metro, Metro! and Windows, Windows Windows!"
  2. Bing is now 30 percent market share in combination with Yahoo!
  3. Kinect is coming to Windows on February 1st
  4. Lumia 900 will be out later this year
  5. Kinect Sesame Street TV, coming later this year
  6. We've shipped over 18 million Kinect Sensors in a little over a year
  7. Nokia Lumia is Coming to America and canada and it's fit for a prince
  8. Tweet Choir's at CES
  9. Windows 8 runs brilliantly on x86, both AMD and Intel.
  10. More devices, the Samsung Series 9, Lenovo U300, even the new HP Spectre. We're being asked "Which PC are you?"
  11. We're looking at Ultrabooks like the Aspire S3, the UX31, Portege Z380, Dell XPS 14z.
  12. Steve said two things are constant. "Number 1: things change. Number 2: people don't want to compromise on what they have."
  13. We're getting a peek at the HTC Titan II, which Ryan pulled out of his pocket.
  14. Bill said the revolution would be "social." That was, of course, 16 years go!
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