This isn;t a common keynote write-up. Ordinarily,
Office 2007 Standard, covering a keynote, I write about what executives say or announce. In the kick-off Customer Electronics Present (CES) 2011 keynote by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer on January 5,
Genuine Office 2007, the much more fascinating bits had been what Ballmer didn;t say.He didn;t give Windows Telephone 7 sales numbers. (Microsoft said lately it had sold one.five million WP7 devices, but later on admitted it had marketed these to carriers,
Windows 7, not customers.)He didn;t give any new Windows 7 income figures.He didn;t talk about Microsoft;s programs to compete with Apple Tv and Google Television (or why it isn;t planning to complete so).Most alarmingly, he didn;t have something to say about how Microsoft options to handle the slate marketplace beyond what organization officials have mentioned already — namely, that Windows seven makes a darn good slate/tablet operating system and will be the operating system that Microsoft makes available to its partners for the next two-plus years. I strongly disagree, as even the nicest looking Windows slates hitting the marketplace are either 1. super pricey; 2. horrible re: battery life; 3. heavy/bulky; and/or 4. not touch-centric.Remember Ballmer mentioned that Microsoft;s and its partners; answers to the iPad would be coming in 2011, and would be Intel Oak Trail dependent? Other than showing off the new Samsung Sliding PC, which is running Oak Trail, Microsoft execs didn;t have more to say on that front.Ballmer did reiterate that the next version of Windows (which he didn;t call Windows 8) will run on ARM processors. He noted that Microsoft offered 8 million Kinect sensors in 60 days. (What he didn;t say is that the 8 million was income to the channel and not customers. So we don;t really know how many customers bought.) He noted that Netflix and Hulu soon will be Kinect-enabled on Xbox Live. And he noted that Microsoft will deliver a thinner (and hopefully cheaper) Surface 2.0 platform later this year.The most intriguing thing about Ballmer;s keynote handle, to me,
Office 2010 Pro Key, was his closing: “Whatever device you use, now or while in the future,
Office 2010 Serial, Windows will be there.”I am taking the man at his word, and assuming that he is talking about Microsoft;s long-term goal: To make Windows (and not some Windows variant, like Windows Compact Embedded or Windows Telephone OS) the ubiqitious operating system to which developers will compose and consumers will run. That, however is not a 2011 deliverable. It;s further away. Substantially.
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