A Guide to the BillG Keynote at CES

john.mullinax — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 23:39:00 GMT

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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