Whether you love him or hate him, you won't want to miss his last CES Keynote, especially with announcements like Microsoft having sold 100 million licences of its latest OS. I know people tend to be extremely forgetful at times like this and probably frantically yelling at their browser to find them the correct links, so I've taken the liberty to plagiarize from my previous newspost because this is important. The pre-show 2008 International CES keynote address will come at 6:30 p.m. PST Sunday, January 6 NOW. Note: If you can't watch the video, the press release is linked below. Enjoy!
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Link: Microsoft @ CES 2008 (Silverlight Required)
View: Press Release (Jokes not included)
Video: 750k | 300k | 100k Link: Microsoft @ CES 2008 (Silverlight Required) View: Press Release (Jokes not included)
EDIT: My experiences: I thought that video at the beginning was hilarious! The brick thing that tells you when people owe you money and when a prisoner escaped from Folsom looks pretty cool too. The rest= so and so. Where's the Xbox "Ultimate"? Maybe they were hiding it cause HD-DVD took a beating right before the show. Or maybe it's BS.
Last edited by Swordnyx on 07 Jan 2008 - 03:45
how do you know more about how many sales MS has than MS does...it may be hard to believe but you have to consider all the PCs sold that had vista pre-installed, the end user may have rolled back to XP but its still a license sold
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Last edited by toadeater on 07 Jan 2008 - 07:44
Pre-installed is OEM, this says retail. That's bought in a box at the store.
Why wouldn't I want to miss this? Already have, I think.
Edit:
Obviously, not live. It's stll working.
Yay!!
Last edited by cork1958 on 07 Jan 2008 - 04:32
Why wouldn't I want to miss this? Already have, I think, and don't care!
Edit:
Obviously, not live. It's stll working.
Yay!!
Err obviously you're new to streaming media.
EDIT: And obviously you know more about Microsoft's sales than Microsoft.
Last edited by Swordnyx on 07 Jan 2008 - 03:47
Why wouldn't I want to miss this? Already have, I think.
Edit:
Obviously, not live. It's stll working.
Yay!!
Err obviously you're new to streaming media.
EDIT: And obviously you know more about Microsoft's sales than Microsoft.
Nope,
Not new to streaming. Just the way the article is titled, it's like it's supposed to be "live." Like only playing at a certain time.
Nope,
Didn't say a thing about knowing more about MS sales than MS, just said "I find it impossible to believe."
I believe they're counting boxes sold to stores that are still sitting on shelves. Gathering dust.
It's the only logical explanation.
ALso a sold license is a license whether it's OEM or retail so I'd say based off the keynote they are including OEM.
I believe they're counting boxes sold to stores that are still sitting on shelves. Gathering dust.
It's the only logical explanation.
The Vista bashing is getting old and dusty, too.
I also don't believe a word of it! 100 MILLION, my sorry arse! Absolute balls!!
Why? They had already sold 60 million by July. I doubt the 100 million is boxed copies -- this figure probably includes corporate licenses which account for a large chunk of Windows' sales.
And it doesn't matter if it's pre-loaded or not, that is still a sale. You can still get XP pre-loaded on machines, but that is usually special order. Go into a store sometime -- all the desktops are running Vista.
Like GreyWolfSC said, the Vista bashing is getting old. I use it daily. There is NOTHING wrong with Vista. It works perfectly fine. Those of you bashing it have likely never used it for more than 5 minutes, if ever.
Pre-installed is OEM, this says retail. That's bought in a box at the store.
i dont recall it sayiong anythign about retail in the keynote.. but i wasnt payign a lot of attention
That's cute with the little $ sign for an S. Did you think of that?
It's a Microsoft promo, what else would they be using?
Last edited by GreyWolfSC on 07 Jan 2008 - 06:05
Too bad others can't act with the same type of class...
I dream of a time when peopel don't call everything irony...
He probably saw it as a form of situational irony, as that's about the expectation contradicting the reality. Sure, it misses the target a bit because MS wasn't using Blu-ray drives to present HD-DVD slides on. That would be irony, for example.
Last edited by Jugalator on 07 Jan 2008 - 09:32
but i missed most of the jokes before the speech..
gonna watch recorded version afterwards..
i'm using IE7 for vista. It looks cool and want to try it
It's a Microsoft speech! What else would it cover? Maybe Steve Jobs should start doing his Apple keynotes on the Segway scooter or Pop Tarts or something?
Last edited by GreyWolfSC on 07 Jan 2008 - 14:02
yeah did they ever say what that was called?
most of the live features have been around a while. and while Google has done "some" of it, I would hardly call it's as intuitive and nicely integrated as MS' stuff.
As for what they showed off, multi touch thing was interesting but the rest seemed pretty mundane and not all that accessible to most people in the real world.
All concluded nicely with a cringe-worthy ending.
I can, I did and I would do it again.
I can, I did and I would do it again.
Ooh you're good.
But remember. You do not insult Slash. You can pop on that weird girl thinking shes all pimp by playing Guitar Hero, though.
I wonder if they are going to release xbox 360 with blu-ray... lol
Last edited by Lucas on 07 Jan 2008 - 05:35
now if only it wa available here. owning or renting discs for movies I'll watch only once is so last century
But we're talking HD movies here. 25 GB downloads? Or whatever the equivalent bitrate needed would be? MS can only do so much until the bandwidth necessary is common. Besides, I don't want to do the job of burning what I've downloaded. There's not much of a choice to keep them on a drive either at their large file sizes, at least not if you want to keep what you buy.
Last edited by Jugalator on 07 Jan 2008 - 09:20
Get real! Its a game, they do it for fun.
Next you will say that people should stop playing call of duty and join the army to live a real war?
Get real! Its a game, they do it for fun.
Next you will say that people should stop playing call of duty and join the army to live a real war?
lol
Get real! Its a game, they do it for fun.
Next you will say that people should stop playing call of duty and join the army to live a real war?
You totally missed the point but if you want to see it like that. Then do!
Get real! Its a game, they do it for fun.
Next you will say that people should stop playing call of duty and join the army to live a real war?
lol u owned him.
Get real! Its a game, they do it for fun.
Next you will say that people should stop playing call of duty and join the army to live a real war?
lol u owned him.
Guitar Hero fanboys.
Get real! Its a game, they do it for fun.
Next you will say that people should stop playing call of duty and join the army to live a real war?
lol u owned him.
Guitar Hero fanboys.
I don't play Guitar Hero, I play the real guitar. I personally think it's lame to have like a 2 feet stick with a board and buttons on it and pretend to be someone else.
Thanks
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2TmeaYz0Dc (PART 1)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZjpKCn6tV0 (PART2)
-The Leader.
-The Big Boss.
-The who is on a charge.
-The Big Cheese.
-....
Better luck next time runner-up : Linux and Leotard .
:-P
:-P
You guys are terrible.
Last edited by EL1TE on 07 Jan 2008 - 18:41
Last month I've downgraded two PC's from Vista to XP. XP speed is incredible, no annoying Vista's security po-pups and important configuration things are not hidden somewhere deep. I think it will be a while till Vista will run DirectX games at same speed as WinXP.
w00t. rock out Bill!
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