Thushan Fernando Uncut

Here’s a video stream of CES 2010 with Steve Balmer launching Microsoft’s 2010+ products.

mms://wm.MS-STUDIOSMEDIA.COM/a10065/o9/presspass/1002811_CES_750k.wmv

Skip to about 6:00 because its all marketing blah – wait till you see Steves presentation!

We Bing, We Bing & We Bing, Bing Bing Bing. (12:30)

*sigh*

Ryan Asdourian from the Windows team comes in at about 27:00 which goes into touch devices.

• 28:38 – Dell’s new thin notebooks
• 33:20 – Bleo (?) book reader
• 35:10 – Live Drive & Office sharing
• 39:33 – TV, CableCard
• 48:00 – HTC HD2
• 49:30 – Slate PCs
• 51:00 -  HP Slate PC
• 54:40 – Robbie Bach – President of Entertainment & Devices (MSFT)
• 58:00 – Alan Wake
• 59:30 – Halo
• 01:09:22 – Natural User Interface
• 01:11:30 – Project Natal (awesome!) will be available Holiday 2010 (November?)

Enjoy!

Completely forgot about a birthday, Windows turned 25 on the 10th of November.

On November 10th, 1983, Bill Gates first unveilled Microsoft Windows (v1.0) to the world at an unprecedented elaborate event at the Helmsley Palace Hotel (Wikipedia) in New York City. Windows 1.0 boasted a graphical user-interface to the MS-DOs world with menus, icons and multi-tasking. Not that I was around back then (I was born just under a year later) but here’s some screenies for your pleasure.

Windows 1.0 Boxshot

All for a cheap $99 and it even comes with Reversi. Steve Balmer, crazy back then, still a crazy guy today.

Belated Happy Birthday.