PostBlog - CES 2011 - Microsoft Keynote
posted Thursday Jan 6, 2011 by Nicholas DiMeo
We have some key notes from the Microsoft Keynote that you might have missed during the liveblog. Follow the break for the notes and for a cool picture!
- Seating capacity was 3,530
- CEA President Gary Shapiro said that this year's CES will contain over 20,000 new products
- Avatar Kinect will be available in the Spring for Xbox Live Gold Members
- Xbox 360 has 30 million Xbox Live members, with a new member joining every two seconds
- The 360 is the #1 selling console for the past 6 months
- Liz Sloan from the WinPho Mobile Team wanted to point out 7 cool things about Windows Phone 7 (in 7 minutes, mind you)
1. Pocket to picture to post in seconds
- Dedicated camera button, works even when screen is locked
2. Glance and go
3. Search with your voice from anywhere
- Dedicated search button
4. Bing and Decide
- Instant answers for stocks sports weather flight info and more
5. The stuff you care about in one place: Hubs
6. Fantastic Apps
7. Xbox Live on your phone
- Windows 7 sells 7 copies a second
- Windows Live has 500 million users
- With the Asus tablet, the Ink demo showed that the device has palm recognition and will ignore your palm while writing
And now here is the 3 of the Las Vegas crew members with Major Nelson!
