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Re: Bill Gates keynote at CES (that playtable rocks)

edlen — Mon, 19 Jun 2006 19:37:58 -0000

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Re: Bill Gates keynote at CES (that playtable rocks)

Greg Furry — Fri, 06 Jan 2006 15:27:47 -0000

Love what you are doing. Love where MS is going. But just had to post this for fun. :-)

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Re: Bill Gates keynote at CES (that playtable rocks)

carboncopy — Thu, 05 Jan 2006 20:04:39 -0000

Any blue screen of death?

Remember the hanged media center?

Re: Bill Gates keynote at CES (that playtable rocks)

John C. Welch — Thu, 05 Jan 2006 18:06:34 -0000

What good does demoing stuff that won't be available for *years* if at all do? You think half those gadgets are going to be within reach of the typical consumer? Who's going to pay for the massive infrastructure upgrade Bill's Vision requires to get this done in 4-5 years? Bill?

What did this demo show me that "THE WORLD OF THE FUTURE" demos in the 30s didn't? They're both as far-fetched. Show me what I can do *today* or *this year*. Give me products that WILL be out within a plannable schedule, not BS that I may as well read chicken livers for.

Re: Bill Gates keynote at CES (that playtable rocks)

BlogReader — Thu, 05 Jan 2006 16:44:55 -0000

Xbox 360 launch stats. 30 countries. 4.5 to 5.5 will be sold by end of June. 4 games per console attach rate (that means Xbox 360 is selling two more games than any other console per console sold).

And what is the attach rate if you take out bait and switch tactics of Best Buy?

Tabbed browsing with a twist. MSN Search done, brings up new tabs by clicking on links which opens new tabs. Then shows off quick tabs. Shows thumbnail of different tabs.

Firefox 3 years ago called and they want their tabbed browsing back.

Photo experiences. It shows that it always save the original photo.

Wow, that's, uh, impressive. It saves the original photo!!111one!!!

Re: Bill Gates keynote at CES (that playtable rocks)

met — Thu, 05 Jan 2006 16:10:39 -0000

John.C.Welsh,
As a consumer I am frustrated that these techs are not available for use now.
But as an engineer, I love to see the technologies of tomorrow. I admire MS for trying a few things.

But I hate it when all that is mixed with market speak, thats all. After all the person within me who understands it is an engineer not a consumer. (MS should sell in a different way the future)

Re: Bill Gates keynote at CES (that playtable rocks)

Christopher Coulter — Thu, 05 Jan 2006 12:43:16 -0000

Not to piss in the pool, but meanwhile back in the real world....

http://www.securityfocus.co...

We have analysed some 100 malware WMF files and they can do almost anything. We saw download trojans, adware and spyware apps, backdoors, lots of bots (zombie programs), as well as password-spying programs which are looking for PINs and TANs for online banking attacks. I expect that some 1,000 websites are already compromised.

One of the malware apps we have discovered at 2005-12-29 (some days ago!) already had a build-in infection counter at a (hidden) website and we saw the number 233,000. This means, a few days back, some 100,000 PCs seems to be compromised already. Today, the website is still working, and has delivered more than 1,000,000 malware installation files already. With 1+ million PCs under your control, you can do almost everything!

Re: Bill Gates keynote at CES (that playtable rocks)

Christopher Coulter — Thu, 05 Jan 2006 12:34:08 -0000

The mainstream media pick-up, day after, is all Urge and the Gates sound-off that IBM is the greatest competitor (anti-Google hype), boy that's pretty flat, but then the rest of Keynote stuff is too esoteric and reshashed, and Vista is too far off. Not a great kick-up. Don't the marketing bunnies know how to plant themes anymore?

Re: Bill Gates keynote at CES (that playtable rocks)

scobleizer — Thu, 05 Jan 2006 12:33:25 -0000

Dimitar: of course! :-)

Re: Bill Gates keynote at CES (that playtable rocks)

John C. Welch — Thu, 05 Jan 2006 11:33:02 -0000

I do love how half of what you see in a Bill Gates keynote is pie in the sky baloney, and all of what you see in a Steve Jobs keynote is product you either can buy that day, or will be able to buy within a timeframe that isn't "when donkeys fly"

Re: Bill Gates keynote at CES (that playtable rocks)

John C. Welch — Thu, 05 Jan 2006 09:02:50 -0000

So since HD-DVD *requires* you to use Windows - Based software and Windows Media, and we all know how well that works on !Windows..

Outside of Redmond - created and approved platforms, how is anyone supposed to use HD-DVD. Forgive me, but I don't see BallmerGates allowing Linux or OS X to have the same HD-DVD experience as Windows.

I mean, just look at the example of WiMP:Mac.

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Dimitar Vesselinov — Thu, 05 Jan 2006 08:24:32 -0000

Robert, will Google's Larry Page steal the show on Friday?

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MattJ — Thu, 05 Jan 2006 06:05:24 -0000

It's very hard to get interested in the technology when you can't flipping see it. I presume this is a "You're on a Mac, ugh! Why would you be interested in MS technology" thing.

“The file name, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect.”

*sigh*

Re: Bill Gates keynote at CES (that playtable rocks)

met — Thu, 05 Jan 2006 05:04:00 -0000

Oh! they all do get a lot of hype. But atleast I get to try out their stuff as soon as they are announced.
I wish sideshow, etc would be available...right now!!!

By the time I get to see most of the exciting stuff announced today... MS would have started its hype on the next something. :)

Re: Bill Gates keynote at CES (that playtable rocks)

scobleizer — Thu, 05 Jan 2006 04:24:51 -0000

Met: me too. Apple always has cool PowerPoints. Er, Keynotes. Heheh. Google? We see their first CES keynote on Friday. I'll bet they get a lot of hype.

Re: Bill Gates keynote at CES (that playtable rocks)

met — Thu, 05 Jan 2006 04:06:47 -0000

troyh, thats a good one. I have always wondered why MS hypes its technologies. After all its not a startup trying to get some buzz.
I prefer the method followed by Google and Apple to an extent.

Re: Bill Gates keynote at CES (that playtable rocks)

Nicole Simon — Thu, 05 Jan 2006 03:13:22 -0000

See, I was going to not watch it. But now you made me interested. ;)

Re: Bill Gates keynote at CES (that playtable rocks)

Kenneth — Thu, 05 Jan 2006 03:02:37 -0000

Good to hear that Flight Simulator is not dead. It was quite a good simulator (compared to Train Simulator for example).

BTW. Vista's website has been updated. So far I am liking the look of Vista. Now to wait for the public beta.

Re: Bill Gates keynote at CES (that playtable rocks)

Thu, 05 Jan 2006 02:44:52 -0000

I tried to view the keynote and I get "The specified stream type is not recognized." Oh well.

Re: Bill Gates keynote at CES (that playtable rocks)

troyh — Thu, 05 Jan 2006 02:44:25 -0000

Wanna know how to make a Microsoft nerd stop talking about how cool Microsoft's technology is? Ask them when it's shipping. :-)

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james — Thu, 05 Jan 2006 02:17:13 -0000

Wow, from Fripp in previous post to justin timberlake and mtv in this one.

I'll take the frippertronics anyday.

Re: Bill Gates keynote at CES (that playtable rocks)

ZF — Thu, 05 Jan 2006 01:39:59 -0000

So I decide to watch Bill's presentation, and I go to your link at

http://www.microsoft.com/ev...

and I click on the link, and up comes Windows Media Player, and it's followed by a message which says:

"The file name, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect."

and I DON'T get the presentation.

Kind of says it all about Microsoft...

Re: Bill Gates keynote at CES (that playtable rocks)

Brian Kramp — Thu, 05 Jan 2006 01:31:38 -0000

Correction:
"Announced that four million Xbox Live subscribers added."
This was more like 4 million downloads from the marketplace, rather than subscribers.

Re: Bill Gates keynote at CES (that playtable rocks)

Scott — Thu, 05 Jan 2006 01:24:10 -0000

Wait, since when does MTV play music?

Re: Bill Gates keynote at CES (that playtable rocks)

Alijah — Thu, 05 Jan 2006 01:16:11 -0000

Nobodys talking about the live messenger demo. the entire keynote was great can't wait to watch it tomorrow.