Microsoft CES Keynote Overview - Utterly Underwhelming

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You’ve read our Live Blog of Microsoft’s CES Keynote, now here’s the impressions. What a waste of time. No product announcements, no talk of what we can expect over the next year. It was an hour long boast session. “Look what we did”.

I don’t know if the HD-DVD cancellation cut out any announcements or what, but this was pathetic and boring. I’m going to go on record as to say it was the worst keynote from Microsoft ever.

Here’s what happening, in a nutshell. They showed off Windows Live and all it’s components, then bragged about how cool it is. Said how cool Xbox 360 is and how many consoles and Live subscriptions they’ve sold. Talked about how cool Mediaroom and Zune are. Showed off the Zune Social website. Showed off Sync in cars, then Windows Mobile (followed by bragging about how it’s the best). Gates shows one thing that could happen in the future, but it’s very far off and not extremely interesting. Robbie Bach challenges Bill Gates to a game of Guitar Hero 3, but they never play. Show ends.

Yeah, waste of an hour. Thanks guys. I’m going to go back to waiting for Live to work.

[Update] For the record, since I’m already hearing people (via other means) telling me I should look at the whole perspective and not just gaming, that’s what I did. I expected a lot more in terms of Windows Mobile, Windows Home Server, etc on what we can expect in the next year or so. Did I expect any major 360 announcements? No. I knew Ultimate would never happen and I know this isn’t the platform for major gaming news releases. From a complete perspective, I was very underwhelmed.

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