Microsoft's last CES keynote speech likened to an infomercial

By Lee Kaelin

January 10, 2012, 1:30 PM EST

Comments1 Thousands of people attended what will suppsoedly be Microsoft’s last opening keynote speech at the Consumer Electronics Show last night, which took place in the huge Palazzo Ballroom at the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas. For the last 14 years former CEO Bill Gates or the current CEO Steve Ballmer have entertained venue attendees at the world’s largest electronics convention.

There is no doubt Steve Ballmer’s last speech commanded the usual mix of power and had the attention of its omnipresent media circus, but at the same time it’s not difficult to see why the software giant has decided to step down in future conventions. January just isn’t typically a month in which Microsoft announces anything new or industry breaking and it showed, with much of the 90-minute keynote covering products the media largely already knew about.

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