So I was just watching the stream of the Keynote from Microsoft’s Bill Gates from the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas… Here are the notes

Vista
- Searching across all vista computers
- Plug Xbox controllers into Vista PC, and play games
- Live Search, 3D fly through

Office 2007
- New layout, with ribbons, more features available for users
- Simultaneous Release of Office 2007 & Vista

Media Center in Vista
- Watch & record HD Television
- Sports Lounge – Microsoft & Fox Sports

Photos
- 2 Billion photos taken last year
- Photo gallery ~ edit and manage photos & videos.
- DVD Maker – built in

Ultimate ~ Flagship Edition
- Extras
- Group Shot
– Allows the combonation of several pictures to be made

into one.
- Dream Scene
– Full motion Desktop
– Set Video as Desktop Background

1.5 million devices supported in Vista
- Baackup
- Video
- DVD

Software
- Gadgets
- Search API
- Visulization, DirectX 10
- Windows Presentation Foundation

Touch Screens
Media Center

Vista PCs

Ultra Mobile
- Medion
-
Laptops
- Toshiba
- Acer
Gaming
- Voodoo
- Alienware
- Dell
Entertainment
- Dell
- Monoreal
- Sony

Windows Home Server
- Homes, Multiple PCs, xboxs
Storage available at all times
2nd Half 2007
HP Media Smart Server
Automated Backup
- Remote connectivity
- no need to talk about volumes
- Quite a bit of expandability
- Move data around in order to remedy drive issues
- Terabytes on the device
- AMD, Intel
- Great Simplicity

Connected Entertainment
- Entertainment, whenever, whereever they want
- community, share content & ideas
- Needs HW/ SW & Service

URGE
- continuing to be commited to it. 350 Partners around the

world.
- Zune Media Player
- Ship & Sell 1 million copies of zune

Mobility & Mobile Phones
- Calls
- Emails
- IM
Movies
Tv
Music
Connected Entertianment on the Phone

BlackJAck
Treo
Dash
Q
driving for Windows Mobile
- outsells blackberry

Gaming
- 200 Million Gamers
- #1 Gaming Platform
- More Powerful with DirectX 10
- Easier to use, simple
- Safer with family settings
- Hardcore Gamers, Casual Gamers
- Growing Market
- Desktop, on the Go
- Xbox 360
10.4 million
37 countries
160 HD Games
- Gears of War: 2.7 million copies, Halo Like franchise.
- 300+ Titles end of the year…
- GTA 4, Mass Affect, DDR, Guitar Hero.
- Halo 3.
Xbox Live
- 5 Million Members
- Expand Community
- Take it to a whole new level
- Windows/Windows Vista, Bring Windows to Xbox 360

Live on Windows (Xbox live)
- Just like Xbox 360 Live, compatabile with Vista
- Applies to both Hard Core Games and Casual Games
- Live on the Live Service,Summer ’07
- 3 Billion hours of gaming

TV & Movies
- HDTVs were the thing to buy
- 4 Ways to get HD Movies
- HD-DVD Player, xbox 360.
- HD-DVD Format top selling

- Media Center
– 80% of PCs sold as Media Center
– 30 Million world wide.
– network with XBOX 360, all experience you want.
– from media center streamed to 360
– Media Center Extender

- Xbox Live Video
– 1000 hours of content
– Adding Lionsgate

- IPTV
– In Market,
– AT&T
– BT
– DeutscheTelekon
– SwissTelecom
– Major part of delivery over the next 4 years
– Available on Xbox 360
– Available Holiday 2007

More choices from consumers
take content whenever where
share it with their friends

Give connected experiences 24/7
not sure about during sleep times

Connecting in the Car
- simple
- incredibly simple, safe commands
- People spend hour and a half in their car

New Sync
- fully voice-activated
- totally integrates, all electronics
– cell phones
– zuines
– ipods
– seamlessly
– access to full capability of your phone
– never having to download your phone book
– every personalized setting
– place, receive calls
– maintain entering and exiting vehichle
– text messages read to them
– translates emoticons and the like
– ability to be full entertainment platform
– most USB storage devices
– flash & zip drives
– Uses Windows Auto Software
– Roll it out quickly on a dozen ford products in 2007
– Including Ford Edge & Crossover
– Improve, capability, appeal, and value to vehicles

Moving Forward in years ahead 4 or 5 years
- Use voice to interface with PC
- ability to have a camera to do face recognition
- microsoft home of the future, new version
- Knows information about you
– Special offers
– coupons, and store that away and use later
– Browse menu and like
– View through camera, delivery of package
– Kitechen: Projecting images onto a surface
– Uses RFID, and brings up ingredients
– Brings up Recipie

Bedroom
- Change screen if you want, to do whatever you’d like to.
- Control from Ultra Mobile PC.