Microsoft Offers Big Vision, Little News
Steve Ballmer gives his final CES keynote
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer kicked off this year's International Consumer Electronics Show on Monday night with characteristically high energy but not much in the way of big news.
Ballmer's speech was supposedly Microsoft's final keynote at the event, breaking a 15-year streak. That decision probably made a bigger splash than Ballmer's actual speech. Gary Shapiro, the president and CEO of the Consumer Electronics Association (which organizes CES), addressed some of the speculation in his introduction, claiming that the decision was mutual (rather than a unilateral withdrawal from Microsoft) and saying he would be "shocked" if another Microsoft executive doesn't take the stage at CES in coming years.
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