The Final CES Keynote From Bill Gates

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Monday January 7, 2008 @01:12AM from the won't-be-the-same-without-him dept.

Sunday evening saw the final CES keynote delivered by Bill Gates in his current role with the Microsoft corporation. Speculation about big announcements generally seemed to be for naught, as his last address at the show focused more on broad concepts than blockbuster news. "Gates outlined three major themes for the second digital decade-high definition displays with 3D experiences and high quality video and audio, connected services and the power of natural interfaces. Gates had a vision early of those themes, but his quest to make the Tablet PC, Media Center PCs and natural interfaces, such as speech and touch, more mainstream has not been realized." A full description of the talk, including his Guitar Hero finale with Slash, is available in Engadget's liveblog of the event.

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Re:Silverlight? by stewbacca · 2008-01-07 05:18 · Score: 0, Offtopic

"Decent standard" for me would be anything that I don't actually have to install any sort of extra stuff for my browser just to view content. With Microsoft's track-record, I'm a bit leery they are just trying to force yet another MS proprietary format on us, without actually offering anything better or new; just Microsoft.
Silverslight may be great, but I won't know, because I don't want to get fired for installing yet another Internet plug-in at work. Maybe I'll try it at home? Maybe I'll just move along to the next site that doesn't require the plug-in? Maybe it will become sort of defacto standard...someday?