Steve Ballmer CES Keynote address

As you may have heard this is the last year that Microsoft will be participating in CES so last night I watched the Ballmer keynote address. 

It was not good. 

The introduction by the head of CES was hugely overblown and the actual speech was done in the form of an interview by Ryan Seacrest who looked like he would rather be getting gang raped than sitting on that stage and at first Ballmer looked terrifying.  One of the participants in the This Week in Tech chatroom said he looked like Peter Boyle in Young Frankenstein right before he began maiming villagers.  I couldn’t really disagree. 

There were a couple phone announcements and some Windows Phone 7 Demos.  I have mentioned before that I did some acceptance testing on Windows Phone and that made me into a convert. 

They also had a presentation about Windows 8 that was horrible, not just because it was rehashed content, nothing new released or announced but because the woman giving it wouldtalkatabout6000milesperhourfor3minutes then    take    a                  HUGE               breath.  She sounded like she was going into respiratory distress and it was very distracting.  Not a very smooth presentation at all and there wasn’t nearly enough shown of Windows 8 itself

That was about it I was fairly disappointed in the presentation itself but what I did see of the products actually looked good.