Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer kicked off the 2011 International CES with the preshow CES Opening keynote address on Jan. 5, 2011:
Video replay:
MacDailyNews Note: This video is provided by Microsoft Corp., hence the Silverlight requirement.
MacDailyNews Take: 10:50pm EST: Unless we missed it (we may have nodded off there a bit) he did not mention a tablet. The wow starts now.
Which is more effective, Microsoft’s CES 2011 keynote or an Ambien overdose?
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Ballmer! Ballmer! Ballmer! Tell us man! Give us the future of Slate computers! and WebTV! 2 areas that you’ve fumbled in for years, but now…. it’s going to be different now….
I can’t hear it…got all the volume up to the max…there is some audio but not on the MacBook Pro
I will not install Silverlight.
I’ll wait for the web version before I install SliverCrap. Besides I’d only laugh my self to death.
@ macgravy: It hurts my ears when I max out Ballmer’s fingernails on chalkboard voice.
I love how Microsoft was too cheap to secure the rights to display the music during their keynote.
Okay, I feel impressed by the controller free Xbox Live Kinect demo for Zune, Netflix, Hulu, and ESPN. Knowing Microsoft they’ll F it up or make it too confusing or buggy (“that was a belch not a next movie request!”), but that is a direction I’d love to see Apple employ with the AppleTV.
Can anyone answer this: While I know that the Xbox is cash flow positive now, can anyone tell me Microsoft’s net loss on the Xbox has been including R&D, the early loss leader sales, and the red ring of death
Well, sure can’t watch it on my iPad so I may as well comment.
And that’s all I have to say about Ballmer.
funny to watch them try to play catch up. Ain’t happenin’
Camera is sweet on the phone..
Balmy looks like a T-Rex, he’s trying really hard not to lift up is arms
“We have hubs, so you don’t have to look through a sea of apps”
iPhone has folders, instead of having to flip through everything we just tap on what we need
“We have hubs, so you don’t have to look through a sea of apps”
iPhone has folders, instead of having to flip through everything we just tap on what we need
“We have hubs, so you don’t have to look through a sea of apps”
iPhone has folders, instead of having to flip through everything we just tap on what we need
“We have hubs, so you don’t have to look through a sea of apps”
iPhone has folders, instead of having to flip through everything we just tap on what we need
The dedicated camera button on the Windows Phone 7 is probably a good idea. The lack of a gyroscope and accelerometer for auto-rotation of photos is not.
No, I don’t need a dedicated search button. I can take two or three clicks to get there.
Okay, how does one actually Cut/Copy/Paste in Windows Phone 7 without any feedback?
Oh no he didn’t! Ballmer just called Windows Phone 7: “snappy”
Hmmmm All I get is a weird ERRO MESSAGE!
Now to be fair I have tried this before and it turns out (after crawling thru the AWFUL Microsquish tech support) that it is because I am looking for the PPC version of Silverlight. There is no update for PPC versions. It would be nice to just be directed to a page that says that… rather then some generic error page.
*sigh* Typical Microsquish. Just one more reason to NEVER OWN A MS PRODUCT!!!
Hey look, the Windows 7 tablet needs a stylus! How 1995!
Why did they make this guy the CEO? It makes no sense.
I really wanted to see this clown and his circus (entourage) but I’m on my iPad 🙁 …and I refuse to install that crap on any of my computers, Macs, of course.
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Is he sweating and dancing and dissing iOS like all the time?
Unbelievable that he got a prime time spot for that lack of vision speech. No Tablet… Evidently Microsoft will miss even playing in the game, and I wanted to see them get crushed! Threats of Windows everywhere. He actually showed Windows 7, running Windows 7 apps! Absolutely amazing. On a different chip no less! I thinkApple did something like that a few years ago! And Windows phone is adding 100 apps a day! Lets cheer! Lets do the math…. 35,000 a year… they have 10 years to catch Apples apps in the store TODAY! I can’t beleive something that lame would have so much attention. (The speech, not Balmer… He is a complete joke!)
Microsoft embarrases America these days….It is worse than IBM 20 years ago!
@Tommy Boy
Besides, I’ve used search on Windows 7 and it never finds anything you want, it seems they tried to rip off Spotlight on the Mac, well, with the difference that it doesn’t work.
I don’t understand why they’re so obsessed with search if they can’t make it work without days of tweaking and still.
(I dual boot into Windows in one of my computers, just for emergencies. Nothing good there)
I had to install a Silverlight upgrade to watch this stinkin’ Balmer video on my Mac from a Mac site? This is bullshit!
I can’t hear it either. Not working in Firefox?
I am part of the i-ecosystem. iPhone 4, iPad, MacBook Pro etc… Of course I love my iPhone, but I have to admit, I think the Windows phone has some good ideas. I especially like having live updates on your home screen. OneNote is also great.
Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz…
The day I install Silverfish is the day I dig my eyeballs out with a spoon.
Gee, somehow watching Ballmer make a fool of himself yet again isn’t nearly enough enticement to get me to install a microsoft product on my mac.
Better luck next time, guys!
-jcr
Okay, if you do nothing else, you MUST watch the video at 2:17:14, as Ballmer takes the stage… and gets ALMOST NO APPLAUSE AT ALL.
Totally worth it.
Good god, why couldn’t they edit out that first 2hrs and 17mins?
Ballmer can’t even make a keynote speech without copying Jobs’ style, cadence and gestures. Change the voice (and the image) and this speech could have been given by Jobs.
Come on, everybody sing along… “Get on your feet….”
Baloney
is the tarded kid with the helmet licking his elbow in the back of the short bus! Wow that’s funny I typed in Ballmer and the auto correction changed it to baloney. Try it on any iPod touch iPhone or iPad.
Sorry I missed it. Did he offer any free tickets to a Miley Cyrus concert?
Just in case you were wondering, yes – there really are real people like Liz Sloan at Microsoft. They are super excited about everything.
@TommyBoy
Not sure exactly where the xbox is now re break even, but just a couple of years into it, microsoft’s gaming offensive was estimated to be $14B in the hole, with much of that being a hideously chaotic development expense. Keep in mind for years they were losing hundreds of $ per box to be competitive, and they may still, although I haven’t kept up on that lately. They are now cash-flow-positive on a current basis due to game sales, but be assured they still have a mountain to climb. In the mean time gamers are dumping their consoles for mobile (iPod/iPad/iPhone) devices.
@ MDN
The Windows guy did do a short demo of the Asus tablet with a stylus and a keyboard and a desktop version of Windows. It wasn’t really that much different from the tablets that MS has failed to sell for the last decade, but the Ink feature (Ink? *ahem*….) was nifty for highlighting things in your excel sheets and stuff. 10 years of development has really paid off.
Liz Sloan of Microsoft was a terrible ADD/ADHD anorexic cadaverous Cruella DeVille-ish presenter. At first I could not believe they would put someone like that on. Very creepy and a giant turnoff with an overplayed exuberance. I’m sure she’s a good employee and mother but someone needs to take her fingers out of that electric socket.
@ Peter Blood
That was harder to sit through than Ishtar.
Really, how difficult is it to chop off the first 2 hours of empty stage? How amateurish!
Looks to me like he gave a PowerPoint, not a Keynote.
Sorry.
To tell the truth, I didn’t bother watching it. But I did see some of the comments by Android fans on Engaget. Boy, they want to preorder now! Talk about the “not-quite-bright.”
Hey yo, dude, piece of sh&t, whatever… Ballmer-the-loser… Why don’t you go back to your Redmond office and start to masturbate under your desk again?? Okay? Ballmer-the-loser, You are a disgrace to every CEO and high tech company everywhere…
“Looks to me like he gave a PowerPoint, not a Keynote”
LMFAO! LOVE IT!!!
That was actually more entertaining than the usual Microsoft “keynote.”
Microsoft has been losing ground to Apple in the “Mac vs. PC” contest. But going forward, as “tablets” (as redefined by iPad) become legitimate replacements for more and more existing computers, Microsoft will lose ground even faster (in its primary cash cow business).
And the loss will not only be to Apple, but also to Android. Apple is one company with one tablet product, that does not usually license tech to third parties. Apple plays by a different set of rules. But Google is playing Microsoft’s game. Android is a bigger threat to Microsoft than Macs or iOS. Apple needs to do its usual clever manipulations to encourage “Android vs. Windows” as much as possible, because between those two, Apple will end up making most of the available profit (as usual).
It was clear from what was NOT said in the keynote that Microsoft has no answer for tablets. I find that to be amazing. They are obviously NOW throwing money at the next version of Windows, but that effort is not going to show any results in 2011 and maybe not even 2012. It will be like Windows Phone 7 being released after iPhone has been out there for more than three years. Imagine what an iPad will be like after three years and four generations. That’s what Microsoft will have to match in its FIRST release of an OS that is optimized for mobile computing.
But you can’t compete right now, if you can’t even play in the game.
That lardass ape is a good fit for that failed bitch pelosi and her fudgepacker lapdogs
Can someone tell me how voice recognition on the Kinect is meant to work while watching a movie with the sound turned up?
Did anyone else notice that the movie sound was turned right down in the Kinect demo.
Since he was the visionary so long for the company people could perceive it as a change in direction for MS that may not be good. The company may not be as stable due to him leaving the leadership position. The ship may start falling apart with him not pulling things together.
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I reckon I’d last 5 minutes in a meeting with Liz Sloan before I remove her vocal chords with my bare hands.
This is the first time ever that I’ve needed to install SilverLie…why should I start now?? I’ll pass.
@ken1w
The game that Google is playing is not quite the same – unlike Windows there is no licensing fees for the Android software, to the best of my knowledge. Google’s focus is advertising revenue.
But the end result does appear to be similar – a flood of devices in a race to the bottom,
Welcome to the Circus!
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Liz Sloan is just creepy . . . . but then, look at who introduced her . . . .
umm why do they have 2+hrs of dead air before it starts?
Lurch is alive!
Will someone give Liz Sloan a freakin sandwich!! So Microsoft has finally decided to support SoC. Nice timing dumb___es. You may be a little late to the party.
You guys need to stop whining about he 2 hours 17 mins of dead time at the beginning……… It’s the best part of the video.
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the steadicam work is really bad.
Best quote from Surface 2.0 Demo.
“only 4 inches thin…”
Came out of his mouth awkwardly and was clearly planned as a sound bite.
ow gad I was afraid that he starts jumping like monkeyboy because of that music
@Alfred P. Sloan
No relation to Liz are you? Yeesh.
Yeah he might have well said “only 3 feet THIN!” while avoiding the “thick” word. Of course thick well describes Ballmer.
Not unsurprisingly, Steve Balmer takes the stand at CES on Jan 6, the same day that Apple activates its new appStore.
Or is it the other way around?
Windows phone 7 is so unique, so innovative, so wonderful,,,,, just ignore that phone behind the curtain.
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We have games… isn’t that wonderful…??
Microsoft… seeking to monitize their product so they can take your money. Buy all MS stuff to make it work… Money, money.
service, functionally, etc is second hand.
Just a thought,
en
On a side note. Microsoft has its foot into some interesting things.
I like the idea of where Kinect could go.
I like the idea of some of the software that Steve mentioned.
But given Microsofts heavy handed approach, and talk about bragging. Look how microsoft invented tablet software… and it can run on different chips …. soon…. soon…Microsoft invents EVERYTHING… out of the Azure… Just so ahead of its time.
Reminds me of the Titannic. “What ice berg.?? There are no icebergs here, ignore what the look out says…. charge ahead…. er at least …… that a way. ”
Just a thought,
en
There is a interesting video here: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/40948187#40948187. It describes what Microsoft’s stock performance was for the past 10 years. From looking at this video and the one above it looks like Microsoft has lost its “vision”. Much like Apple was before Steve came back at Apple. It almost swallowed them. But thanks to Steve he turned it around in time and made Apple a powerhouse tech company. I think if the board of directors leave Steve Ballmer as CEO, they will be lucky if they are still around by the time the next version of windows comes out. The whole Microsoft ship is in denial. They sound like they do not have a clue of what is going on around them. The next version of windows that will run on SoC won’t be out for about 2 years. That will be too late. Apple is already running OS X on a SoC. Our iOS devices. So it will not be hard for Apple to bring OS X itself to a SoC. This could be the next step in their PowerBooks for all we know. Microsoft and their partners has been working on “instant on” computers for years now with no success. Apple came out with the MacBook Air a couple months ago that does just that. Apple is just ahead of their game. They know exactly what to give the consumer. They have a clear vision. Microsoft has some good ideas but they will come too late.
I agree with ElderNorm. Microsoft reminds me to of the Titanic as well. Ignore the lookout.
Also, has anybody took note in the above video of what kind of ovation every time the audience gave to Steve Ballmer and/or some one else? The crowd was not impressed.
Ah Silverlight – part of the embrace, extend, extinguish culture. Good to see Ballmer’s still hanging onto the dream.
When I installed Flip4Mac I removed it from the bundle – the less crap on my machine the better. Flash has gone too now. I’m in the html5 beta with YouTube and if a standard web page won’t load content for me elsewhere, I first try to fool it into thinking I’m using an iPad by using the Developer menu in Safari, then if that doesn’t work I assume they don’t want my clicks.
hey retards, I’ve read through your comments and i think that you guys are just pissed off that Microsoft is so much more massively successful then apple. Ipads are overpriced and are only bought by mac fagboys like you.Apple products are overpriced pieces of shit. paying for the brand, you guys suck.
He said Windows Phone 7 is “snappy”!
@Mark Hattersley,
“…you guys are just pissed off that Microsoft is so much more massively successful then apple.”
01/10/2011
MSFT Market Cap: $240.9bn
AAPL Market Cap: $311.8bn
Now, what were you saying?