Microsoft Office 2010 Professional CES What Micro

This isn;t a common keynote write-up. Commonly, covering a keynote, I publish about what executives say or announce. In the kick-off Customer Electronics Present (CES) 2011 keynote by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer on January 5,Microsoft Office Professional 2010, the much more intriguing bits had been what Ballmer didn;t say.He didn;t offer you Windows Phone 7 product sales numbers. (Microsoft said not too long ago it had marketed 1.5 million WP7 gadgets, but later on admitted it had marketed these to carriers,Microsoft Office Professional 2010, not buyers.)He didn;t offer you any new Windows 7 sales figures.He didn;t speak about Microsoft;s programs to compete with Apple Television and Google Television (or why it isn;t arranging to perform so).Most alarmingly, he didn;t have something to say about how Microsoft plans to handle the slate marketplace beyond what enterprise officials have stated already — namely, that Windows 7 makes a darn good slate/tablet operating system and will be the operating system that Microsoft makes available to its partners for the next two-plus years. I strongly disagree, as even the nicest looking Windows slates hitting the marketplace are either 1. super pricey; 2. horrible re: battery life; 3. heavy/bulky; and/or 4. not touch-centric.Remember Ballmer mentioned that Microsoft;s and its partners; answers to the iPad would be coming in 2011, and would be Intel Oak Trail dependent? Other than showing off the new Samsung Sliding PC, which is running Oak Trail,Microsoft Office 2010 Professional, Microsoft execs didn;t have much more to say on that front.Ballmer did reiterate that the next version of Windows (which he didn;t call Windows 8) will run on ARM processors. He noted that Microsoft marketed 8 million Kinect sensors in 60 days. (What he didn;t say is that the 8 million was revenue to the channel and not consumers. So we don;t really know how many buyers bought.) He noted that Netflix and Hulu soon will be Kinect-enabled on Xbox Live. And he noted that Microsoft will deliver a thinner (and hopefully cheaper) Surface 2.0 platform later this year.The most intriguing thing about Ballmer;s keynote address, to me, was his closing: “Whatever device you use, now or within the future, Windows will be there.”I am taking the man at his word,Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2010, and assuming that he is talking about Microsoft;s long-term goal: To make Windows (and not some Windows variant,Microsoft Office 2007 Enterprise, like Windows Compact Embedded or Windows Telephone OS) the ubiqitious operating system to which developers will publish and customers will run. That, however is not a 2011 deliverable. It;s further away. Significantly.