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Owen Williams
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Jan 9, 2012 20:42 EST
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It's a sad sight to see, Microsoft stepping away from one of the largest technology expos in the world, and we'll be covering their last announcments live. It's not clear what they're going to talk about, but stay tuned to find out.
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Brad Sams Welcome to this Neowin.net live event. Coverage will begin shortly.
Jan 9, 2012
Brad Sams We are here to live blog and provide images from tonights event
Jan 9, 2012
Brad Sams
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams We got a hold of the Microsoft keynote video before the announcement! http://www.neowin.net/news/mic...-video-leaks-ahead-of-event
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams We're still waiting here.... but it's not overly exciting now that we know whats happening
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams Intro video playing to show off CES 2012. Ke$ha rocking the background music...
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams Just some CES announcements now. Woohoo.
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams Bit of reminiscing about Bill Gates speaking back at the very first CES.
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams Wow, not avoiding the awkwardness with Microsoft leaving at all
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams "Microsoft is taking a break" - that's different from what we're hearing. It's only a PAUSE
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams The CES guy offers "gratitude and goodwill" to Microsoft.
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams And now it's Microsofts turn.
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams Steve Ballmer on stage!
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams They made a scrapbook for Microsoft!
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams This is... very strange
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams And... heres a video
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams It's running through Microsoft over the years, as a remix. Cute.
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams This is actually really cool. It's like, a song made up of Bill Gates and others speaking.
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams Ryan Seacrest on stage...
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams Ryan partners with Microsoft and Bing... and has done so for year.
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams Apparently Microsoft is very surprising to him.
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams Apparently this is a "conversational" presentational.
Jan 9, 2012
Brad Sams
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Owen Williams Er... presentation
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams And Steve Ballmer is back
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams Ryan: "What should we expect from you tonight?"
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams Ballmer: "Great products, our future"
Jan 9, 2012
Brad Sams
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Owen Williams Ballmer: "You'll see our fast, fluid, dynamic Metro interface".... ummm
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams Ryan: "When you said Metro you looked at me a strange way!"
Jan 9, 2012
Brad Sams
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Owen Williams Ballmer: "I'm excited about where we are, I think we have a unique, beneficial experience"
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams "They all connect to the internet, email... social networks, blah blah blah"
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams "What we've done with windows phone is do it better than those others (the ones with icons...)"
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams "Windows Phone is the first phone that puts people first"
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams "Oh, I missed a call from Bill Gates!"
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams "It's about what's important to YOU, not what we think is important to you"
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams There's a really cool "live tile" display behind them
Jan 9, 2012
Brad Sams
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams The picture below is Ballmer's WP7 device
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams Derek Snyder coming on stage...
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams He's going to show off Windows Phone again.
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams Synder: "whatever phone you're looking for, they're all running the same great software"
Jan 9, 2012
Brad Sams
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams This is all just Windows Phone marketing guff again.
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams Talking about the people hub.
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams We've seen this before, its nothing new.
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams This guy has a few missed calls on his phone...
Jan 9, 2012
Brad Sams
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams Bagging on iMessage and BBM, apparently Facebook chat is better
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams Talking about WP7 messaging.
Jan 9, 2012
Brad Sams
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams No secret messages about Joe Belfiore though, disappointing.
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams That voice demo didn't go great...
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams He tried saying "sounds great" to the phone and it typed "Sound."
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams Looking at some apps. We've seen this all before.
Jan 9, 2012
Brad Sams
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams Bing demo. Yep...
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams Showing off what you can eat and drink here.
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams This is making us hungry!
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams They're having a bit of trouble pulling in data here.
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams "When i go ahead and clack this" (not a typo)
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams OK, demo is over. "It's all about putting people first"
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams Back to Ryan and Ballmer.
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams "Whats going on with your hardware partners?"
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Brad Sams
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Owen Williams Nokia is about to launch in the USA
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams Other partners have great Windows Phones too.
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams You'll be able to get unlocked in stores soon.
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams It's the Nokia Lumia 900 on stage!
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams And the HTC Titan II is on stage too.
Jan 9, 2012
Brad Sams
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams So nothing too new so far. Microsoft's partners stole the show.
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams Windows PC's up next.
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams Background is back to Metro now.
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams Ballmer: "NOTHING better than good competition"
Jan 9, 2012
Brad Sams
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams 1.3 billion PC's in use around the world. Not a small number!
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams Ballmer: "People don't want to compromise on anything they have today. They want the best of what they have and the best of what they want"
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams "With Windows 8, we've re-imagined Windows"
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams Windows 8 demo coming up.
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams "Great work from OEMs/ISV's for form factors"
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams Oh! I saw this content on our front page...
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams Microsoft has taken up dubstep for this one!
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams Showing off the laptop models the partners have been working on"
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams Wub wub wub wub wub
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams Oh yes, it's more dubstep!
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams Tami Reller coming onto stage for Windows 8
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams "Chief Marketing officer"
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams "I love PC's!"
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams Here we go...
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams Windows 8 talk
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams We started the Windows 8 journey at CES
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams "Windows 8 is a new way of thinking about your PC"
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams "Windows 8 is designed to deliver a no compromise experience"
Jan 9, 2012
Brad Sams
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams Oh look! Some Windows 8(?) PC's on stage
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams Here we go
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams The lock screen of Windows 8 is on screen
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams Showing off picture password
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams And this... isn't the developer preview? At least the background is a different color.
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams "Windows 8 is designed to work with touch"
Jan 9, 2012
Brad Sams
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams Talking about charms...
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams "They're just a gesture away"
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams Opening a gesture app
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams The finger painting app is up!
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams Long Zheng spotted a Windows calling app on the Windows 8 back tiles http://www.istartedsomething.c...e-phone-calling-capability/
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams This tablet has an i5!
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams It's the developer tablet... come on
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams Samsung Series 7 tablet running Windows 8
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams Oh! The Windows Store
Jan 9, 2012
Brad Sams
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams Apps are what power the store....
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams Windows store is the source for free/trial/purchasable apps
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams Ebay app in store. US today too....
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams Cut the rope HTML5 being shown off on the store. Just $1.49
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams We're going to get a demo of HTML5 cut the rope.
Jan 9, 2012
Brad Sams
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams She won! Hooray! Clapping ensues...
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams Windows store opens in late Feb!
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams Businesses can use Windows store to install on enterprise machines.
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams "Symantic zoom"
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams You can zoom out on apps! Nice!
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams You can zoom out on apps! Nice!
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams That's really good, actually. After a few months most users have MILLIONS of apps
Jan 9, 2012
Brad Sams
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams Reiterating the Windows 8 keyboard support. We know you haven't ditched us yet, Microsoft.
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams Showing off apps working together now.
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams Apps can opt-in to receive info from other applications
Jan 9, 2012
Brad Sams
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams Swipe to the charms, hit share.
Jan 9, 2012
Brad Sams
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams Use an app to send emails. OK... that's expected behavior, but it seems to need an app
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams Oh look, the desktop on ARM!
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams Oh look, word sucks still
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams The start menu is all black now. Definitely a new build.
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams Zooming on a website. Neat.
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams It's actually smooth! The first demo that actually works.
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams Showing off the browser. No chrome!
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams Oh look! HTML5 support
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams Beta.... late feb
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams That's nice and vague, as per normal!
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams And now we're on to ultrabooks again.
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams It's getting tiring hearing about these.
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams Wait, I have that Samsung Series 9. Isn't that old?
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams "Windows 7 today, Windows 8 tomorrow"
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams There's just nothing new here today.
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams 7 new copies of Windows 7 licensed every second.
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams 500 million Windows 7 pcs
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams All Windows 7 machines will work with Windows 8
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams "The tweet choir" on stage.
Jan 9, 2012
Brad Sams
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Owen Williams This is just painful. Be glad you can't hear this.
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams OK... well that just happened
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams Moving onto Xbox now. Looking forward to hearing more we've already heard...
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams We have over 66 million Xbox users.
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams They're talking about the Xbox coming into the home as an entertainment hub more lately
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams "Did I expect the Xbox ten years ago? No."
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams Oh, look... here's another Xbox demo
Jan 9, 2012
Brad Sams
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams We've shipped 18 million Kinects!
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams @aarongreenberg: It's official over 66M Xbox 360 consoles sold and over 40M Xbox LIVE members.
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams Sorry, had to get that tweet - missed the numbers!
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams Hey, its the metro Xbox dash again.
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams Another voice demo
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams It's going OK so far, it's just Xbox demos we've already seen.
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams "Xbox: Bing harry potter and the deathly hallows part 2" worked
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams "I'm a total trekker"
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams This guy loves Star Trek!
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams Search by actor, neat.
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams Demo is going very well
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams He just resumed watching a movie from last night.
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams All these great services only work on American xboxes.
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams Some Windows Phone integration being shown with his Windows Phone
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams Uh oh... the phone won;t conncet
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams Finally worked... showing the football game
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams He can get the score up from his phone, neat.
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams Dance Centrals in the disk tray, hope he plays it!
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams Verizon FIOS being shown off now.
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams A partnership with News Corporation to bring other content
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams Xbox fox app coming soon, family guy and more to come.
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams Glee on demand! Hooray!
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams Just what I want on my Xbox! The WSJ.
Jan 9, 2012
Brad Sams
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Owen Williams "What comes next?"
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams "We're working with the worlds best brands to get the best experiences"
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams These guys don't want to release a new Xbox do they? Milking it.
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams W'ere going to watch Kinect Sesame street TV
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams You can interact with the TV show. Neat.
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams I'll keep this in mind next time I'm watching sesame street.
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams They bought a kid with them!
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams Running commentary of the show... oh dear
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams He spilt his coconuts!
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams They want the young girl to throw a coconut to the TV show, that's really cool.
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams He's freaking out. He wants his coconuts.
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams Kinect lets you literally throw the character on the other end a coconut. Cool way for kids to interact with the tv show.
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams It even detects how hard you throw it. Cool.
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams This is "two way TV"
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams More demos.
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams They just got into the sesame street world. That works impressively
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams It's like a green screen but... without the green screen.
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams This is something new, very very cool.
Jan 9, 2012
Brad Sams
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams Back to Ballmer and Seacrest.
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams A demo of kinect.
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams Talking on possibilities with Kinect.
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams "What's next for Kinect?"
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams "We asked the world."
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams Kinect is coming to Windows on Feb 1st!
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams Talking about other products....
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams Microsoft Sync. 9 million cars soon.
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams Office 2010 "shot through the roof" and is the fastest selling
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams Office365 in the cloud, "stunning success rate"
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams What's next?
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams METRO METRO METRO
Jan 9, 2012
Owen Williams WINDOWS WINDOWS WINDOWS
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