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PST: We're looking a few new Windows 7 PCs, starting with a demo of graphics performance and a look at the weird dual-screen laptop I saw at Microsoft's briefing earlier today.Д§:23 p.m. Again, Surface looks neat-but it's not anything you can order online and have shipped to your home.Д§:27 p.m. PST: There's also a recap of this afternoon's Surface demo. There's a very techie-oriented discussion about how 'SoC' helps miniaturize devices.Д§:33 p.m. PST: Ballmer returns to recap why Microsoft is moving to have the next version of Windows run on ARM-based 'system on a chip' hardware: To Bring Windows to smaller mobile devices. It can't do the same with outside companies.Д§:37 p.m. That is, Microsoft can order its own developers to revise their apps for a new processor architecture. But unless I know how much work it took to port over that software, that says little about the future of ARMed Windows software.

PST: As I saw earlier today, the demo emphasizes how well Windows and Microsoft's own apps run when redone to run on ARM. Perhaps I'm jaded, but I don't think the prospect of a new Windows release in two years quite earns that adjective.Д§:40 p.m. PST: 'This is an exciting time,' Ballmer says. Ballmer thanks the audience for attending.Д§:43 p.m. Is this really going to end without any major new product launch? It is. PST: Ballmer is now in ending-the-keynote recap mode. And-perhaps most shocking of all-it lacked the traditional comedy video segment.Д§:46 p.m.

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The keynote also lacked any update on the Mediaroom software for cable boxes shown off at last year's keynote.

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Predictions of a peek at the functions or interface of Windows 8 (or whatever the next version will be called) or the introduction of a Microsoft Web-media receiver to compete with the Roku and Apple TV boxes were also off. PST: I guess all those rumors of a revival of the 'slate' tablet-computer design Ballmer showed off at last year's keynote-just in time to get run over by the iPad-weren't true. Does the absence of news about any big new product launches count as a disappointment, or do you prefer a relatively vaporware-free keynote. You can also watch the event live at Microsoft's site.Д§:56 p.m. But in retrospect, the highlight of that event was not the initial snafu but a public demonstration of Microsoft's Kinect add-on for the Xbox.ДЇollow along here as I recount what Ballmer has to say the most recent posts will be at the top, though we'll switch the post to straight chronological order afterwards. Last year's keynote, for instance, began with a 50-minute delay caused by. You never quite know what to expect at these things. LAS VEGAS-Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer will soon be giving the opening-night keynote for the Consumer Electronics Show in the theater of the Las Vegas Hilton here.

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