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...This year's CES runs Jan. 8-11 and the keynote speaker is Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. The conference will include 2,700 exhibitors flaunting their wares across 1.7 million square feet of floor space at the Las Vegas Convention Center and Sands Expo and Convention Center in the Venetian Casino and Hotel. The sponsoring Consumer Electronics Association, a trade group, expects 130,000 people to attend, including retailers, manufacturers and members of the press. (See TIME's Best Inventions...
...This decade has definitely seen some of the most memorable CES events in history. The Microsoft Xbox and the plasma TV were both unveiled in 2001. High-definition TV and Blu-Ray came along by 2003. When Bill Gates was demonstrating Windows Media Center at the 2005 CES, his on-stage computer crashed mid-demo; a few minutes later, a Microsoft employee got the "blue screen of death" when demonstrating another application. Chuckles and schadenfreude abounded...
...When techies think about CES, they can't help but think of Gates. The former Microsoft CEO was the keynote speaker at 10 CES events, including in 2008, when he announced his retirement from day-to-day operations at the company. A video parody he screened of his last day at Microsoft featured cameos by Jon Stewart, Barack Obama and George Clooney, among others. (Apple's Macworld conference, typically hosted by Steve Jobs, takes place around the same time every year as CES.) Another highlight of the 2008 CES - at least for TV watchers - was a surprise appearance...
...Microsoft Moments in History...
...entry in the smartphone race. (Neither price nor release date was disclosed.) Palm's cell-phone operating system was in dire need of an upgrade; the Treo, which once ruled the category, is now a distant fourth behind the Apple iPhone, the RIM BlackBerry and phones running Microsoft's OS. The stylish Pre was a hit with attendees - it has a touchscreen like the iPhone that slides away to reveal a keyboard, and it can run many applications at once, rather than one at a time, which is the iPhone's limitation. It'll be sold exclusively by Sprint, which...