Digital Meld

Welcome to the DigitalMeld.com Live Microsoft CES udpate. WATCH LIVE.

8:28PM CST – beat boxers on stage getting the show started.

8:30PM CST – CES President is on stage… “Happy new year…”

8:34PM CST – Microsoft video… “Baby I’m ready to go…” Veruca Salt anyone?

8:34PM CST – Microsoft CEO Steve Balmer takes stage…

8:34PM CST – Praises Bill Gates on his work with children in Africa.

8:37PM CST – Ouch, Jerry Yang CEO of Yahoo/Facebook joke…

8:39PM CST – “Innovation” will get companies through tough economic times. Microsoft invested 8 billion last year alone in inovation…

8:42PM CST – “Convergence of the three devices everyone uses…” PC, phone and television =) Make computing cheaper to the world… Mobile phones are the first “computing experience most people will have”.

8:44PM CST – “The future” is connecting ALL of your devices together… it is “THE LAST MILE” brining together PC, Phone, TV + Cloud information = Seamless experience. A DIGITAL MELD! “Windows” should be the center of technological solar system!

8:46PM CST – Hardware video… showing new devices. Samsung notebook…. Dell Studio Hybrid… Tosiba Ultra Portable… Acer Aspire… Sony Vaio TT… Asus IV6… Lenovo Ideapad… Toshibo Qosimo… HP TouchSmart PC… ThinkPad Dual Screen, Firebird with Voodoo… Sony Xperia mobile Phone. HTC Touch… Samsung Omnia… Touch Pro (My Phone)… Windows Live…

8:50PM CST – “Most power for the money… I AM A PC!”

8:51PM CST – PC enabled applications, more choice in hardware and the Windows Experience helped it all work together…

8:52PM CST – “Future” of Windows is a “Life without walls.” Phone, PC, TV.

8:53PM CST – “Windows 7 best version of Windows ever.”

8:53PM CST – Windows 7 Beta officially released to MSDN and TechNet… Friday world-wide available to the world.

8:54PM CST – Windows Live, keeps your life in sync… “Windows Live Essentials announced, final. Facebook partnership, Windows Live published. Dell, Live Essentials installed on all Dells.

8:55PM CST – Windows mobile, 11 phones have sold over 1 million units each. 30 New WMO phones this year. 20 million WMO phones sold over past 12 months. Verizon Live Search announcement…

8:57PM CST – Windows 7 Beta look from Charlotte something…

9:01PM CST – Windows 7 “Home Group” in three steps. “Play to” allows you to send music to your Xbox, or another PC in your home network.

9:02PM CST – Windows 7 touch screen now… “Surface Globe” with multi-touch.

9:04PM CST – Windows mobile phones, IE with FLASH… “Life Without Walls…” Samsung Omnia panoramic 5MP camera…

9:06PM CST – Windows Live and IE8… home.live.com. 50 partner sites “updates” on Windows Live, Facebook, Twitter, etc.

9:09PM CST – Windows Live Hotmail – Live Search built in to right pain… “Quick Add”.

9:12PM CST – New “I’m a PC” commercial… “We’re Tripod” /yawn Microsoft.

9:16PM CST – Robbie Bach, entertainment and devices division on stage!

9:17PM CST – Create social experiences that bring people together… entertainment.

9:17PM CST – New Ford Sync with “TellMe” deliver information services to you car.

9:18PM CST – Zune Social, subscriptions… Mix-View, keep 10 songs per month with Zune Pass…

9:18PM CST – IPTV, AT&T U-Verse, MediaRoom Anytime, SingTel…

9:21PM CST – Best year for Xbox ever. 28 Million consoles sold… leading attach rate. 17 Million Xbox Live members. 25 Million Halo games sold. “Defining application for social gaming.”

9:23PM CST – Halo Wars, Feb. 5th demo. Halo 3 ODST in the fall. Xbox Live has had 10 billion hours of gameplay and social interaction.

9:23PM CST – Xbox Live Primetime. Meet up with friends and play on the big stage. “1 vs. 100″ is all live and every question counts.

9:24PM CST – “Which school won the 2009 Fiesta Bowl?” GO TEXAS!

9:25PM CST – 45 movie studios and television networks providing content to Xbox Live. Including Netflix… Netflix demo. New Netflix queue updating app available on Windows Mobile.

9:32PM CST – Music gaming on Xbox, Lips, Rock Band, Guitar Hero, American Idol… 60 million music track downloads. Xbox Live accounts for 80% of all song downloads…

9:33PM CST – Community Games Channel… Kodu… which we talked about HERE! A young girl editing her own game on Kodu. Kodu is VERY cool. I wish I was a kid again!

9:39PM CST – Robbie off stage, Steve back on stage… I wanted more for E&DD!

9:41PM CST – Steve going on about smarter software, cheaper hardware, convergence (digital meld), seamless communication forms…

9:42PM CST – Janet, Microsoft Research “conceptual prototypes” demo… digital textbook.

9:47PM CST – Surface Computer! My favorite.

9:50PM CST – Balmer, closing statements… “our industry has an incredible opportunity”…

Overall Microsoft announced some cool stuff… but nothing completely ground-breaking unfortunately, with the exception of Kodu. Thanks for hanging with D|M on our first live coverage of our young life. I’m sure we’ll get better at this and hopefully you come back. THANKS AGAIN!