Microsoft's CES 2008 booth tour

Another year, another Microsoft booth. Truth be told, nothing really too exciting was going on with the cats from Redmond. Sure, they had their Zunes, PCs, and all manner of Windows-powered devices, but it just seemed a little... flat. Maybe it's the specter of Gates' final keynote haunting the scene. Take a look at the gallery and judge for yourself.

Gallery: Microsoft's CES 2008 booth tour

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[Steele @ Jan 8th 2008 9:25PM]

hey an iBook g3 looking laptop, cool

[john @ Jan 9th 2008 12:46AM]

Yeah, I was going to say "it's a silver ibook"

[Joe_Templeman @ Jan 8th 2008 9:26PM]

but what have they got to report? Its not like their doing anything interesting at the moment

wake me up when they make a *decent* mobile operating system.

[bob e @ Jan 8th 2008 9:26PM]

Wish I could have made it there, looks productive and fun!

[webon @ Jan 8th 2008 9:37PM]

hey EG guys I know your busy like hell right now, but I would appreciate it if when you have some time on your hands can tell me why oh why I can't find my profile, and why my display pic is gone

thanks in advance

[webon @ Jan 8th 2008 9:38PM]

ok Its back, so don't read that last comment
thanks

[Josef @ Jan 9th 2008 10:32AM]

It's too late! I already read it! Now waht do I do?!?!?!?!?

[Das @ Jan 8th 2008 9:57PM]

Eh
only thing worth looking at was the artwork for the Zune originals

[Ryan Karolak @ Jan 8th 2008 10:16PM]

That Lifebook looks cool... I would totally put linux on it though.

[Dave @ Jan 8th 2008 10:25PM]

but where is WinMo 6.1?

[prodigy @ Jan 8th 2008 10:26PM]

Engadget do your homework a bit. Maybe if you take your eyes off steve jobs and Apple you can do some real reporting.

I watched BillG's keynote. There were some interesting developments. Do you know BT (in UK) now offers Mediaroom(IPTV) on Xbox 360. BT customers can use their xbox as a set top box.

[Nicholas FitzRoy-Dale @ Jan 8th 2008 11:35PM]

Er, you did notice that Engadget liveblogged Bill's speech, right, and then followed that up with an interview with Bill later? The "Engadget are a bunch of Apple fanboys!" troll is looking really tired.

[madnut12 @ Jan 8th 2008 10:29PM]

They also reported 10 million users on Xbox live, and Xbox revenue (games+Hardware+accessories) beat PS3 and Nintendo revenue for the same COMBINED - for 2007.

[Christian @ Jan 9th 2008 12:20AM]

Wait... what's that? Despite those amazing sales, the entire Xbox project is still losing money hand over fist? Hard to believe!

[John @ Jan 9th 2008 12:46AM]

actually, I'm pretty sure they had their first profitable quarter last year. And if you want to talk "hand over fist", let's look at PS3 profitability, eh?

signed,
A PS3 owner (Playstation Network username 'Psychopathy')

[madnut12 @ Jan 9th 2008 3:02AM]

yeah, they had their first profitable quarter last time around. but the stats they published were for total 2007 revenue, which includes the first quarter of fiscal year 2008.

[Brad @ Jan 9th 2008 10:43AM]

they're saving up everything for MacWorld next week and the release of Office 2008 no doubt

[Franklin @ Jan 9th 2008 12:59PM]

I don't know. I thought the live Surface applications provided sufficient "cool" factor. It's not a consumer device, but a biz-to-consumer platform. Let T-mobile or Applebees spend all that money, benfitting your experience as their customer. You, in-turn, will reward them with repeat business, and redmond nirvana is realized again.

Plus, coffee-table miss pacman was the ultimate form factor, circa 1987, for me to own the top score list at the local Pizza Hut.