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Bill Gates sings at CES for one last time
News In his annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) address, the Microsoft chairman demonstrated a slew of fashionable PCs, touted the role of computing interfaces like speech and touch, as well as announcing a partnership with NBC to jointly run the... [07 Jan 2008]
Microsoft "hell-bent" on building ad business
News Hefty investments in online services and consumer electronics will let Microsoft maintain its historically rapid growth rate, CEO Steve Ballmer told financial analysts on Thursday. Its commitment to online services and consumer devices are... [27 Jul 2007]
Vista won't crack the living room, says AMD
News He said: "PCs are too big, they look ugly, they generate too much heat, they don't fit into a consumer electronics environment. So he called on the consumer electronics and the technology industry to come together and solve the challenge. [24 May 2006]
Gates and Murdoch team up for video-on-demand
News In his keynote at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Gates said the pair are to team up to offer video-on-demand (VoD) to Microsoft Media Center users. Microsoft head honcho Bill Gates has revealed the software giant is getting into... [05 Jan 2006]
Gates wows Vegas with Vista keynote
News During his keynote speech at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Gates showed new photo-editing tools and a revamped media player designed to improve the way Windows tackles the types of media files that are most used by consumers. [05 Jan 2006]
New Vista preview comes out to play
News Microsoft will share more details of Vista's media features at January's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, the company said. The new preview release also includes an update to Windows Media Player and gives a peek at the successor to Windows... [20 Dec 2005]
2004 to end on un-PC note
News Gartner analyst Charles Smulders said in a telephone interview: "As we move forward into the fourth quarter, we continue to have a concern about a lack of must-have PC features, as well as budget competition from other consumer-electronics devices. [16 Nov 2004]
Microsoft readies recordable-telly OS
News Much of the focus with the new version, which is codenamed Symphony, has been on improving the audio and video quality, with the goal being to rival consumer electronics devices such as DVD players and digital video recorders that cost far less... [06 Oct 2004]
Bill Gates, chairman, Microsoft
Video At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates touts the Portable Media Center, a pocket-size device that plays music, movies, TV shows and other content. [08 Jan 2004]
Microsoft now working on Xbox 2 'entertainment centre'
News In an interview ahead of his keynote address at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Gates said the company would look to extend the functionality of the Xbox, the only game console to ship with a built-in hard drive and Ethernet connection. [08 Jan 2004]
Gates reveals consumer dream - PC-TV hook-up
News Microsoft is also preparing to release Windows Media Connects, a series of application programming interfaces (APIs) that will allow consumer electronics manufacturers to equip their devices to support automatic connections to share media with a... [08 Jan 2004]
Microsoft upgrades Windows XP Media Center
Video CNET's Brian Cooley examines whether the Windows XP Media Center Edition 2004 will bridge the gap between computing and consumer electronics. [30 Sep 2003]
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