Microsoft Says Goodbye To CES

theodp writes "Microsoft has traditionally delivered the pre-show keynote and put up a mammoth booth at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas each January. No more. GeekWire reports that Microsoft will bow out of CES after this year's show (Steve Ballmer says buh-bye on Jan. 9). 'As we look at all of the new ways we tell our consumer stories,' explained Microsoft's Frank Shaw, 'it feels like the right time to make this transition.'"

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Re:Nah. It is all those stores they are opening

[hairyfeet]

The sad part is until they fire Ballmer who is determined to kill the golden gooses MSFT is in REAL trouble, hell look at the GUI for Windows 8, which is really NOTHING but WinTab being shoved down all their home and business users just so Ballmer can dream of having his very own iPad. I bet you hand that man an iShiny he lovingly caresses it before it sinks in that he don't make it and throws it against the wall!

MSFT needs to accept the fact that they are the new IBM. IBM makes shitloads of money but they will NEVER be "the company" that everyone looks to, old "big blue" as the late Jobs put it, ever again. MSFT has three golden gooses that despite the zealot FOSSIes and iUsers dreams will NEVER go away and will be billion dollar businesses for probably ever as long as they keep updating to support the latest hardware. I'm of course talking and Windows and Office and WinServer which together makes a pretty damned nice solution to most business problems. And of course Windows in the home won't be going anywhere, I'm guessing when Win8 aka "Holy shit you thought Vista was bad look at this!" hits folks will simply stay with Win 7 and call it a day.

They just have to accept they will NEVER be "the company" again like they were in the 90s, where people that didn't even have computers lined up to buy Win95 because they were sure they'd need it. Those days are gone, they missed the mobile boat which has done sailed under twin flags on iShiny and Googledroid. You see I'm willing to bet my last dollar if you could get him to talk off the record he honestly believes that by trying to shoehorn the Windows name onto a cell phone GUI'd OS he can trick developers into writing for WinPhone and WinTab, hence why he is cutting his nose off to spite his face on .NET and Silverlight simply because he can't figure out how to get them to run fast on ARM.

But YOU know it won't work, I know it won't work, and any developer stupid enough to fall for such an obvious ploy is too dumb to write any code worth having anyway. They've thrown billions at the consumer market trying to be the iShiny and its been a MASSIVE fail, just as even after buying all of Yahoo's search they'll never get better than a distance second against Google.

TLDR? The ship has sailed, you've missed the boat, accept this and enjoy your billions in steady profits on X86 for all eternity, because otherwise you are just shitting money down the toilet like all those MMOs that fold after they find out they will NEVER be WoW.