When I hear his voice I think of Kermit.
..Gates is just not cut out to do keynotes ...Both of them have the innate capability to turn something interesting into a snoozefest.
If you listen, Gates has many very interesting things to say but it's actually beyond the realm of ordinary people to consider. The purpose of keynotes is to get people excited and the MS head honchos manage to do the opposite. It's a little sad as a lot of their upcoming work actually has more substance than anything that Apple will manage.
Seconded. He sounded more Kermit-like at the start though. I think there was ans is at the momemnt a whole shed load of "marketing speak". Integration, accessibility, connectivity etc. Words which can mean something useful,butare also bandied about glibly. As
http://www.winsupersite.com/reviews/ces08.asp shows - little of note, with some cheek (Apprently zune isn't even #2 in the mp3 player market as Sandisc is). Watching some of Scoble's shows live (qik.com/scobleizer) the marketers are full of it. Where's the average guy chillnig watching the football? Or the facebook/bebo use, or the iTunes use.
They're showing big ass HDTVs, with Vista machines, with simulated showrooms effectively.
One thing that might save it? Gates gets it as does Jobs - integration of simple other User interfaces - shake, wobble, move, touch, speak to etc with teh capability being baked into the OS. Windows mobiel 7 looks good, but darnned little buttons, i'll take a wireless fold out mat keyboard and a next gen iPhone.
WIth all the hype about car integration - Apple is going to burst onto Movies, HDTV entertainment, and accesibility (making products to hook up the Xbox, Playstaion to ) whicih then can feed the movies music pictures, OS, web browser to the tv/ monitor.
One othe rthing the MWSF will have that the Gates talk didn't really have is decent data - metrics of sales, product, and market share.
