CES 2008: Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates Keynote Speech

The opening keynote of CES 2008 featured information from Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates and President of the Entertainment & Devices Division Robbie Bach, with 13 years passing since Bill Gates first keynoted at CES 13 years ago…technology has really changed.

You can view Bill Gates CES 2008 keynote speech in three webcast streams: a 750K Stream, 300K Stream and 100K Stream.

Keynote Features Include:

• Bill Gates talking about how mobile devices will play the leading role in our lives over the next few years.
• Guitar Hero 3
• The Xbox media extender doing digital TV
• Demos of some upcoming technologies from Microsoft Research
• Spending on Xbox 360 games is outselling the wii and PS3 games combined
• Microsoft and the 2008 Beijing Olympics
• Microsoft Silverlight
• Demo of Microsoft Surface
• Recap of mobile technology and Microsoft’s involvement

And tons more information, but not much news on anything we did not know already in 2007. The future does seem to be a mobile one…watch the Bill Gates CES keynote speeches above via the webcasts.