Rather than having to summarize the possibly last keynote by Bill Gates at CES, have a look at the press release that just came out. At the 2008 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES), Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates and Microsoft President of the Entertainment & Devices Division Robbie Bach today unveiled several new entertainment services and partnerships, including new deals with Disney-ABC Television Group, NBC Universal and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. (MGM), that demonstrate how software is improving people’s ability to connect with their favorite content and communities through new and expanded forms of entertainment experiences.
There were no big product announcements but there were demonstrations of Surface and a new version of Tellme, the mobile service that lets people to use voice commands to say what they want and see the answer on their phone’s screen.