“He made a nod to the Gloomy Economic Climate, largely by saying it didn’t matter so much if you were an innovative company,” Johnson blogs.
MacDailyNews Take: Then Microsoft ought to be worried. Good for their nerves that they’ve deluded themselves into thinking that creating bad, upside-down and backwards knockoff of Apple products is “innovation.”
Johnson continues, “But then, after doing the usual CES routine (that is: talking about how the world and its citizens are now connected through technology) he started ripping through a series of pretty-much-as-expected announcements.”
“So: Windows 7 beta is available now for developers, and will be globally available on Friday,” Johnson reports. “Windows Live will be integrating with Facebook – through Facebook Connect – and Microsoft is now in a partnership with Dell to pre-install a whole bunch of Windows Live stuff on their consumer PCs (edging out Google, which a Microsoft spokesman was very pleased about earlier on today when I spoke with him).”
Johnson reports, “Ballmer doesn’t do any demos himself, instead handing the work over to a series of other presenters: first a perky demo lady came on and showed us around a few aspects of Windows 7 (multitouch; exposing your desktop with one move – sound familiar?).”
MacDailyNews Take: Why, yes, it certainly does.
Johnson continues, “Finally he does return, to tell us about the way that computing’s going to develop – more integration, devices that understand each other and the internet, and smarter software. Sidenote: Ballmer has really big hands. I mean big. Like snow shovels. Maybe that’s why he can’t do demos.”
Johnson writes, “I think a C plus is the absolute best I can muster.”
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Readers “James W.,” “Chris,” and “Judge Bork” for the heads up.]
MacDailyNews Take: At least they didn’t throw eggs.
CES 2009 Microsoft Windows 7 Demos:
Microsoft CEO Ballmer tells packed house who’s flocking to Apple’s Mac and iPhone/iPod touch platforms: