My Opinions of CES Keynote 2007

Just finished watching the CES keynote...this was what was covered.

• Couple of cool Vista features shown.
• Animated Desktops...so instead of pictures for a desktop you can have movies.
• Version control of files just like Time Machine
• Play XBox Live games on Vista
• IPTV to be integrated into Xbox (Holiday's 2007) - the guy that showed it did a terrible job explaining anything about it.
• They showed Windows Home Server but blackout the broadcast for it for some reason.
• Partnership with Ford to integrate Microsoft Auto to sync with your phone, media device including iPods to seemlessly work in your Ford car (12 models this year)

My overall impressions of the keynote was eh...I was excited to see and hear about IPTV but like I said they did a terrible job explaining anything about it and there are more questions now then before the start of the keynote.

The Vista features were cool but nothing to get me to go out and buy Vista...I'll stick with XP for a while.

The funniest quote was from some guy claiming that Zune was the number 2 portable music player...I almost lost it. I just read an article this weekend that said they weren't in the top 10.

There was a Halo 3 Cinematic that looked awesome and I think that will be the driving force for me to purchase a 360 this summer. But that's only if the Widescreen iPod doesn't cost a second mortgage when announced on Tuesday.

Lastly, they showed off an HP TouchSmart PC which looks awesome.  HP is coming out with some nice looking products.  Which in my opinion look better then Apple's designs.

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