Microsoft Counting on Xbox, Bing and Windows 7 to Drive Grow in 2010

Thursday, January 7, 2010 - 11:49 in Mathematics & Economics

LAS VEGAS--On the eve of this year's Consumer Electronics Show (CES) here, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer delivered a wide-ranging, if unspectacular, keynote, updating (rather than announcing new) endeavors in the areas of entertainment, automotive and search technology. The address Wednesday evening was a sign of the times for Microsoft, and for CES, as the company has reserved its biggest news of the past year for other trade shows--for example unveiling its Bing search engine at the All Things Digital conference in May while introducing its Project Natal Xbox 360 controller-free technology at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) in June. [More]

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