A Guide to the BillG Keynote at CES
Bill Gates gave the opening keynote at CES the other day. You can see a video of it here. I didn't think the press and blog coverage that I saw this morning did a very good job exposing the ton of cool stuff he covered, so I whipped together this guide to give you a feeling for what he did cover and also to help you skip to the "good parts" -- whatever they may be for you. :-)
A few notes: The times at the end of each bullet are the minutes:seconds into the video. All times are approximate - within 30 seconds. FYI, Bill shares stage time with Robbie Bach and a few others, so some sections will have someone besides Bill on stage -- either with him or in some cases by themselves for a short time (so don't worry if you skip to a section and don't see BillG on stage...).
- Bill comes on stage - 5:00
- The First and Next Digital Decade: All media and entertainment will be software driven - 7:00
- Imagining Bill's Last Day at Microsoft - Hilarious video! (link to high quality version of spoof-only)- 10:00
- Second Digital Decade focused on connecting people and user-centric - 18:30
- Software + Services (without using the term) - 19:00
- High Definition experiences everywhere - 20:30
- Service-connected environments pervasive - 21:30
- Natural User Interfaces -- beyond keyboard and mouse -- speech (TellMe, Ford SYNC) and multi-touch (Surface, iPhone), gestures recognition, plus more - 23:00
- New form factors - 25:30
- Windows Live Platform + Windows Vista + Windows Mobile - using all together - 26:30
- Microsoft and NBC partner to show Olympics on web with Silverlight at NBCOlympics.com - 35:00
- Robbie Bach on "Connected Entertainment" - 39:00
- Disney/ABC and MGM bringing TV and movies to XBOX Live - 41:00
- HP building MediaCenter Extender into HD TVs - 43:00
- DVR Anywhere - record on one TV, play on any TV in household network - 43:30
- MediaRoom - 44:00
- British Telecom to use XBOX 360 as set top box for video (e.g., "cable") service - 44:30
- Zune Social - 47:00
- Ford SYNC and Lincoln MKX - 50:00
- 911 Assist - a Ford SYNC upgrade - Can set option for automatic 911 call if airbag deploys unless you stop it - 52:30
- Windows Mobile/SmartPhone voice search with TellMe - 52:30
- Visual Recognition and context awareness on Phone - Microsoft Research device - 58:00
- Guitar Hero smackdown! - 1:03
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About john.mullinax
John Mullinax is a Platform Strategy Advisor with Microsoft's DPE Team. Before joining Microsoft in 2006, John held a vartiety of positions at Ford Motor Company, most recently leading IT services strategy to support explosive business growth in China. Other positions included: Enterprise Architect, Application Portfolio Management, Technology Governance, and Product Manager. Prior to joining Ford, John earned his MBA at the University of Washington. Before that, he was Director of Elections for Douglas County, Washington, where he conducted the first Federal mail-ballot election in the USA. Subsequently, he joined the Secretary of State's office as a consultant working with county election officials in Washington state to improve operational effectiveness, integrity, and security (aka, to prevent the kind of debacle we saw in Florida in 2000).
