Molly Wood Seak about CES 08

Molly Wood is www.CNET.com editor. She gives her opinion of CES 2008. And she thinks there is no product a CES that is the best gadget. I have to say the items she is looking for are usually have their own release date and is not show too much at the CES. Case in point the iPhone, it had its own release date and was not shown at CES. I guess that is a bad example because Apple does things on its own. I guess CES is mainly the place to see what Microsoft is releasing and this year the only thing that is getting released is Bill Gate retirement. But the curve monitor and the voice active GPS are the top products of CES.

CES is Back

2008 CES started yesterday with Bill(Gate) give I guess his last CES Opening speech. He talked about how Microsoft is going to be moving more to your living room with all kinds of windows media stuff. It seems like this has been the theme of past CES. And every year it fails, but who knows maybe this one will take. Moving to your living room is a big jump for any computer company or any hardware. The big problem there are plenty of stuff that will enhance you couch potato life style but there is not one standard. If you like one system then that does not have all the features of others. I really believe that people the non techies will not care. What people want is a TV in the living room and with cable and be able to watch movies with good sound. I don't know how Bill and the other are planning to improve in area but we watch and see. So who every takes over for Bill Keynote speech next year will be the one to tell us about how Microsoft is really make advancement on invading the living room.

Bill Gate had a video of his leaving the company. If I ever find it I will post it but for now this is how it went. It had a lot of big names.

In a video shown Sunday night depicting what his last day at Microsoft might be like, Gates, 52, hammed it up as never before.

"This will be the first time since I was 17 that I won't have my full-time Microsoft job," he said, introducing the video.

He then tried his hand at several post-Microsoft vocations in a series of self-deprecating sketches:

He worked out with actor Matthew McConaughey, pale arms bench-pressing 45 pounds. (Gates: "Am I ready to take my shirt off?" McConaughey: "Uh, not yet.")

He played a guitar riff and then asked U2's Bono, "Wasn't that the craziest riff you ever heard?!" (Bono: "I can't just replace Edge because you got a high score on 'Guitar Hero,' Bill.")

He rapped in a recording studio with Jay-Z. (Gates: "Big pimpin' I'm Bill G! Big pimpin' yeah you know me.")

He called up Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, asking if she'd considered a running mate. (Clinton: "I'm not sure politics is really for you.") Then he called Barack Obama. (Gates: "Hey, it's Bill." Obama: "Bill Shatner? Of 'Star Trek'?" Gates: "No." Obama, sounding suspicious: "Bill Clinton?")

So very funny but have not found it....Yet