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2009-10-22 09:37
| 立即抢注我的免费2G全能空间 在IDC行业中，有许多的免费空间，而真正的免费空间又能有多少？我是一个草根站长，说实话，为了寻找一个很好的免费空间，我在网上找了好多，几乎所有的免费空间都用过，但当网站运行初具规模的时候，突然一天发现，我的网站没了，所有的数据全部丢失，这让我伤心了好久。没办法，谁叫俺们没钱！ 现在许多网站提供免费空间，大部分都是为了推销自己的网站，当到了一定的时候，就取消，而且本来网站的数据也会清空，连通知都没有，我想现在许多的草根站长也许也经历了许多。 某天在网上继续寻找免费空间的时候，发现一些提供信息的网站都在推广特价空间网，一时心痒，跑去看看，没想到还真是的！不过我抱着观望的态度，当时并没有留在心上，继续做着网上寻觅的工作，并且在国外的服务器上也找打了超大的空间，可惜最后一用才知道不能支持采集，只能一步一步的添加。这针对我们闲时做网站的草根站长确实是一个麻烦！ 最后我来到特价空间网，想看看特价空间网是不是我所申请的空间中最好的，可惜连续申请了几次，都因为流量不够，而审核失败，这就加强了我的决心，因为在我的那些痛苦经历中，没有哪个站会把关这么严。之后经过我的努力，流量终于达标了！我终于申请到了特价空间网的空间！第一时间上传了DZ论坛，想做下测试！安装好后，当我打开自己刚装好的论坛，速度让我惊呆了！特价空间网的空间速度绝对不比收费空间的速度差！ 特价空间网的这一措施，在IDC行业中引起了泫然大波，我想在以后的岁月中对那些提供免费空间的网站将会是一个巨大的冲击！之所以很多无耻IDC常常攻击特价空间网！ 但是我用了这么久，一直还是很稳定的！就国内的免费空间谁能做到像特价空间网一样！提供2G全能空间，支持asp与php，，支持20个域名。MYSQL数据库100MB，新手完全够用，技术人员直接与客户沟通技术，及时解决，对新手是莫大的帮助，这也是我支持特价空间网的理由！ 在此，我不得不佩服特价空间网的远见和眼光，前期让利于广大站长，将来实现共赢。希望广大站长朋友们把自己手中的好域名利用好，实现其应有的价值。有了好域名这匹“好马”，你还需要一副“好鞍”! “特价空间网-免费2G空间”的注册地址是：http://www.66151.com/ （zhaojun917）我推荐，我选择，我相信 |
北京今日9时起正式启动三道治安防线
2008-07-15 11:45
7月10日，北京警方荷枪
7月10日，北京警方荷枪实弹把守主要进京通道。
警方对进京车辆进行安全检查。 相关报道奥运期间进京旅客实名购票 警方持枪把守(组图) 三军奥运安保部署到位 重点应对核生化恐怖袭击 我国拿出近千个奥运安保方案 全球保镖聚北京 本报讯（记者 王姝）今天9时起，北京正式启动巡逻防控“三道治安防线”。与周边省市接壤的入口均已设立卡点，所有进入北京的车辆、司机、乘客，都需通过安检排查。昨日，北京市公安局透露了这一消息。  首道防线由民警、民兵执勤 三道治安防线共由数百个卡点组成，民警、武警、辅警、治安保卫人员组成联合工作小组。三道防线自外省市直接进入北京的高速公路起，包括国道和市、区（县）、乡镇及村级道路，与北京接壤的出入口均设置治安检查站点。首道防线由民警带领辅警、民兵执勤。首都国际机场、进京列车均被列入第一道防线内。目前，首都机场已设置检查岗亭，排查过往人员和货物；进京的重点列车，警方将登车检查。 搭车乘客需出示身份证件 设在外省市与北京接壤处的第一道防线，不仅要查车，还将排查搭车乘客。按照北京警方的要求，驶入检查站，司机应停车、熄火，向检查人员提供驾驶证、车辆行驶证，打开后备厢，配合检查人员检查随车物品。与此同时，乘客也需出示个人身份证或有效户籍证明，并配合检查人员检查随身携带的物品。 自今日起，货车进京随车应附货物清单。 忘带身份证者当场核查 自今日起，外地居民进京、北京市民以及外籍游客离家外出，应随身携带身份证件。北京警方发布消息称：“无论驾驶人员还是乘客，无论北京市民、外省市居民以及外籍游客，出门时一定要检查是否带齐有效的身份证明（身份证、驾驶证、护照等），以便遇检查时向民警出示，减少不必要的麻烦”。 据了解，外省市居民进京、北京市民回京，如未带或遗失身份证件，民警将登录信息查询系统，当场核实其身份，“这样会耽误时间，因此出行前一定带齐相关证件”，北京市公安局该位负责人说。 链接 1 三道治安防线 第一道防线：外省市直接进入北京的高速公路，国道，市、区（县）、乡镇及村级道路，首都国际机场； 第二道防线：北京市环城带地区的门头沟、房山、通州、顺义、昌平、大兴等六区直接进入市区或通过五环路、六环路进入市区的主要道路； 第三道防线：城八区的主干道、联络线以及二环路、四环路路口。 第一道防线设置检查岗亭，安装安检设备，实施人车安检。 第二、三道防线的勤务模式为“动态巡逻防控”，即依据警情，随时调整巡逻力量，设卡盘查。 2 六大检查任务 查缉、堵截通缉、通报的重大犯罪嫌疑人；盘查在逃及流窜作案的违法犯罪嫌疑人；检查发现被盗抢车辆和其他有特征的重要赃证物；严查严控各类危险物品和危险人员；查验机动车辆和人员的进京证明、证件；遇突发事件紧急封闭各进出京卡口。 3 八条拥堵高速 北京警方近期对周边进出京路口交通流量监测结果表明，以下八条高速交通流量较大，爆发拥堵比率较大，提醒司机提前出行。同时，近期警方将调整检查力量，增加设备，提高车辆通行率： 大兴：京津塘高速路、京开高速路（106国道）；房山：107国道、京石高速路；通州：京哈高速路、103国道；密云：101国道；朝阳：京沈高速路。 详情请点击专题： |
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2008-06-18 14:51
请投我一票!!!作品名称:祖国统一
2008-05-24 10:01
| 您轻松的一个动作,对我来说是莫大的帮助!!! 请帮我投上您神圣的一票!!! 投票请点击下面的链接,在出现的页面选D,然后再点投票!!!谢谢您的支持!!! http://www.jxecstac.com/workShow.asp?Id=699 |
元宵佳节,我是谁?
2008-02-21 20:00
| 元宵了,吃汤圆了!!! 团圆了…… 兴致勃勃地给她发了一条短信，得到的却是等待waitting…… 一分钟，二分钟，三分钟…… 无止尽…… |
不爱红装爱武装 美女大学生变身海地维和..
2008-02-11 18:26
图为：张伟在海地执行任务﹙图片由张伟提供﹚ 点击查看其它图片 湖北大学一名貌似弱不经风的女生，有着英语专业八级的功底，毕业时没有选择当白领，却走进了严谨而单调的军营；从害怕拿枪到成为“女神枪手”，成为我国第五支驻海地维和警察防暴队一员；赴海地维和8个月，荣获联合国“和平勋章”，并被公安部授予个人二等功一次。 一周前，张伟结束在海地的维和任务，回到国内。今天，张伟将应母校之邀，回到湖北大学，为学弟学妹们讲述自己的成长经历。 联系采访张伟，很难。因为刚刚回到国内，她既要按规定做体检，又要在广东边防系统做巡回报告。为了回母校湖大，她还放弃了这两天单位安排的香港之行。听说是家乡的记者，张伟显得很兴奋，也很谦虚：“是家乡养育了我，母校培育了我，如果家乡或者母校需要我做什么，我义不容辞。”25日中午，记者挤出张伟一个小时的时间，在电话里聊起她的成长经历，她的海地之行…… 高三临时“理”转“文” 张伟是襄樊樊城区人，今年26岁，家中排行老二，还有个姐姐，妈妈曾经当过英语老师。 “妈妈怀着我的时候，还在给学生上英语课呢。”张伟说，很多人说她英语有天赋，看来是有一定道理的，“我从小英语就不错，可能和妈妈那时的胎教有关吧。” 在襄樊四中读高中时，张伟选择了理科。“但我真不知道怎么了，就是学不好物理化学。” 张伟尽管对物理、化学题采取了题海战术，可老是考不好。这与她的英语成绩优异形成鲜明对比。 张伟在理科班呆了两年多，高三开学快两个月时，大家已结束了所有的课程学习，转入高考复习阶段，张伟出人意料地转到了文科班。 很少有人对临时换班过来的张伟，抱有信心。转班不到一个月，赶上一次学校的摸底考试，半路出家的张伟又给了大家一个惊喜：全班近70名学生中，她排在第11名。 1999年，张伟参加高考，被湖北大学录取，专业是她心仪已久的外语。 不爱红装爱武装 1.63米的个头，苗条的身材，干练的短发，举手投足无不彰显自信、率真本色，张伟注定是校园里打眼的那种漂亮女生。班长胡晓燕是张伟的室友，毕业后留校工作至今，她告诉记者：“张伟是那种校园里放眼望去，准能一眼找到的人。” 大三时，张伟一次性顺利通过了国家英语专业八级考试，还代表湖大参加湖北省首届口译大赛获得二等奖。 张伟能歌善舞、多才多艺，一直是学校的文艺骨干，并加入了校艺术团的舞蹈组，曾多次参加各类文艺演出。 胡晓燕说，“我们都以为她是个很合适进外企的人，但快毕业的时候，她报名应征入伍，成为一名边防武警，不可思议啊，一个那么时尚的女孩，穿上了军装。” 张伟承认，自己也确实想过和大多数同学一样，选择一家外企，当白领丽人，但家里姐姐是军人，姐夫也是边防战士，自己对部队有天然的好感，刚好毕业那年，广东公安边防总队到武汉招兵，自己便成为当年湖大惟一走进军营的毕业生。 从红发女到神枪手 部队，对张伟而言，是完全陌生的环境，“第一次拿起枪时我都有些害怕。”刚刚走进军营的张伟，有点找不着北。 刚入伍，新兵被安排在广州市花都区集训，集训是非常枯燥和艰苦的。张伟生性活泼好动，平时在学校通常都打扮得花枝招展，现在要一身橄榄绿，每天队列、军姿，遇到起风下雨，还要在泥水中摸爬滚打。这种强烈的反差，让她有点怀念大学生活了。 张伟还记得集训那阵的糗事：染了一头红头发，科长拿条令条例教育未果后，天天被扣分，成了科长心中的钉子户，最后不得不染黑…… 短暂的阵痛后，张伟慢慢成长起来。在花都集训结束时，她以5发子弹保持在45环以上的手枪射击成绩，被称为女神枪手。 没过多久，姐夫成为中国第四批赴海地维和警察防暴队一员，“防暴队是个锻炼人的地方。”姐夫也希望她有机会去海地维和。 去年，广东边防总队单独组建第五批赴海地维和警察防暴队的消息传来，张伟立即报名，凭着顽强的毅力和良好的身体素质，她在选拔考核中，以体能两项满分，英语、射击均为优秀的优异成绩，从2万多人中脱颖而出，入选防暴队，成为125名精英中的一份子。 警花零失误，潘基文称赞 张伟是今年4月12日，和战友一起飞赴海地的。 初到海地，张伟带着兴奋踏上那片饱受战争蹂躏的土地。满是荒草的机场边，站着荷枪实弹的维和战士，大家寒暄不到两分钟，就被带到一辆防弹的中巴车上，穿好防弹衣，戴好钢盔，枪口一致对外，处于警戒状况。初来乍到的兴奋感没有了，取而代之的是一种神圣而庄严的感觉。 张伟担任的是防暴队办公室值勤官，工作概括起来就是协助办公室主任督促、检查各项规章制度以及领导的命令、指示在部队中的贯彻落实和执行情况，也相当于一个指挥中心。 尽管不用像战斗队员那样经常深入战地，经受枪林弹雨的洗礼，但张伟的工作并不轻松。防暴办下达的每一项勤务命令，警务报告部门的《每日情况报告》，联合情报中心的《一周安全形势分析》，以及各种邀请、资料、函件，都是由值勤官在第一时间翻译，传达至相关人员和部门。在这些英文资料中，有许多张伟不熟悉的人名、地名，而任何一个翻译上的错误，都可能给整个队伍的行动带来危险。 张伟反复归纳整理各类报告，利用互联网学习当地的文化民俗，提高业务水平。在8个月的时间里，她值勤期间所经手的上百个邮件、函件中，未出现一起失误，受到联合国秘书长潘基文称赞。 以武会友，海地吹起中国风 除了维和任务，张伟还和战友当起了文化使者。 武术在海地人心中，有崇高的地位。于是，防暴队在当地一所小学，免费开办了一个武术训练班，当地22所小学的100多名学生，争着报名学。张伟特地为这些孩子设计了中式练武服，背后还有很大的一个“武”字。 武术教练就是防暴队队员，他们用中文喊口号，教孩子们唱《我爱北京天安门》。 在维和结束前的授勋仪式上，这些海地的学生，穿着张伟设计的服装，喊着中文口令，表演了武术，受到各界赞扬。张伟说：“那一刻，真的觉得作为中国人很骄傲。” 防暴队队员还在当地的大学里，举办了一些有关中国文化的讲座，将一些中国特色的小礼物，如中国结、小纸扇、小丝巾，在联欢时赠送给其他国家的维和干警。 这些友善的举动获得了海地人民的认同。张伟说：“我们走在街上，很多人一看我们是中国维和部队，都对我们竖起大拇指。” 后记：采访快结束时，谈起自己8个月的维和经历，张伟说，这段经历，自己将受用一生。感触最深的，是发自肺腑对国家的热爱。“另外，我体会现在和平环境真的很难得，青年人应该好好珍惜，这也是我这次回到母校，迫切想告诉学弟学妹们的。”张伟说。（梦想新闻网） |
温家宝主持国务院常务会议部署保持物价稳..
2008-01-09 18:54
| 温家宝主持国务院常务会议部署保持物价稳定工作 国务院总理温家宝9日主持召开国务院常务会议，研究部署保持物价稳定工作，作出修改《价格违法行为行政处罚规定》的决定。修改后的《价格违法行为行政处罚规定》，加大了对价格违法行为的处罚力度，增加了对行业协会组织经营者相互串通、操纵市场价格等违法行为的处罚规定。 中新网1月9日电 中国政府网消息，中国国务院总理温家宝9日主持召开国务院常务会议，研究部署保持物价稳定工作，作出修改《价格违法行为行政处罚规定》的决定。 会议指出，国务院高度重视物价稳定，去年以来采取了一系列有效措施，促进生产发展，保障市场供应和低收入群众生活。目前，生猪生产正在恢复增长，粮食和油料作物播种面积稳定增加，国家粮食库存充裕，主要工业消费品供大于求，完全能够保证市场供应。但是，当前国际市场原油和粮食等初级产品价格仍在上涨，国内价格上涨的压力较大。值得注意的是，一些地方出现少数企业串通涨价、囤积居奇、哄抬价格的现象；有的企业故意散布涨价信息，扰乱市场秩序，推动物价上涨。 会议强调，社会主义市场经济是法制经济，对于违法违规、破坏市场秩序的行为决不可放任不管。各地区、各有关部门要坚持“防止经济增长由偏快转为过热、防止价格由结构性上涨演变为明显通货膨胀”的方针，在大力发展生产、切实保障供应的同时，依照《中华人民共和国价格法》，强化对价格的管理、监督和必要的调控，维护正常的市场价格秩序，保障广大消费者的利益。一要稳定政府定价和政府指导价。近期，成品油、天然气、电力价格不得调整，供气、供水、供暖、城市公交等公用事业价格以及学校的学费、住宿费收费标准不得提高，保持医疗服务价格稳定。尿素、磷肥等化肥价格也要保持稳定，确因成本上升需调整的，必须按规定报政府价格主管部门批准。二要加强对重要生活必需品价格监管。根据价格法的规定，近期采取临时价格干预措施，对达到一定规模的人民群众生活必需品生产企业实行提价申报，达到一定规模的生活必需品批发、零售企业实行调价备案制度。政府价格主管部门要对重要商品、服务价格的变动进行监测，加强价格和成本调查，促使企业合理定价，并注意维护企业的合法权益。三是严格执法。对相互串通、操纵市场价格，捏造、散布涨价信息，哄抬价格，非法牟取暴利，以及不按规定履行提价申报、备案程序等违法违规行为，要依法严厉查处。四要加强教育。企业不仅要追求经济利益，也要自觉承担社会责任。要遵循公平、合法、诚实、信用的定价原则，为消费者提供价格合理的商品和服务。行业协会要加强自律，强化管理，遵守价格法律法规，并积极引导企业合法经营，共同维护市场物价稳定。要正确发挥新闻舆论的价格监督和导向作用。 修改后的《价格违法行为行政处罚规定》，加大了对价格违法行为的处罚力度，增加了对行业协会组织经营者相互串通、操纵市场价格等违法行为的处罚规定；并对重要商品和服务价格显著上涨或有可能显著上涨时，经营者报告价格变动理由的程序作出了规定。 会议要求，各地区、各有关部门要高度重视，加强领导，确保稳定物价的各项政策措施贯彻落实。春节前，要对粮、油、肉、液化气等基本生活必需品和化肥等农资市场价格组织专项检查，规范价格行为，保障市场供应。 会议还研究了其他事项。 |
Bill Gates: 2008 Internation
2008-01-08 19:43
| Bill Gates: 2008 International Consumer Electronics Show KeynoteRemarks by Bill Gates, Microsoft Chairman 2008 International Consumer Electronics Show Las Vegas, Nevada Jan. 6, 2008 Related LinksWebcast: Bill Gates at CES Watch the webcast of Bill Gates’ keynote address at 2008 International CES.•View the keynote (1 hr.) •View keynote highlights (5 min 47 sec) •Broadcast-Quality Broll: PressPass Broadcast Newsroom  Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates delivers his keynote address to the 2008 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nev. Jan. 6, 2008.Click for high-res version BILL GATES: Good evening. It's great to be here and see all the exciting things going on, the fulfillment of so many dreams and promises over the years. My first keynote was in 1994, a long time ago. That was a time when Windows 95 was just coming together, the Internet was just getting started, and it was within a few years of that that we entered the start of what we call the first digital decade. During that decade, the PC install base grew to over one billion machines. Broadband went from almost nothing to over 250 million users. Mobile phones achieved a penetration of over 40 percent of the people in the world. Digital photos moved from being a film-based activity to being something that's done through the power of software. And music went through that same transformation where today your ability to organize, select and communicate is driven fully by the power of software. The trend here is clear: all media and entertainment will be software driven. The first digital decade has been fantastically successful. The trend to have information wherever you want, to have Web sites get richer, and allow business activity as well as consumer activity, taking the full screen PC and making it better and better for those experiences, customizing things so people get exactly what they want. Ten years ago, I talked about some pieces that go into this. I talked about the AutoPC. Well, today we have Ford Sync, you'll get an update on that, which is exactly that vision. I talked about the handheld PC, and of course intelligent phones, including Windows Mobile Smartphones, are a huge part of the market today with software allowing them to do richer and richer applications. The idea of the TV meeting the Internet - well, we've really kicked that off in a big way with Media Room now connecting up to over a million users, and people for the first time realizing they can build content that's unique, a news show where you see only the things you're interested in, or taking rich complex events, like elections, and allowing people to navigate those in new ways. So we've made a lot of progress. The first digital decade has been a great success. And thousands of companies here have worked together - whether it's to do great hardware, great applications, driving the platform forward or the content that comes in from movies to videogames. Now, this is just the beginning. There's nothing holding us back from going much faster and much further in the second digital decade. Before I get to that, I want to talk about the fact that this is my last keynote. It's the middle of this year, in July, that I'll move from being a full-time employee at Microsoft to working full-time at the foundation, as you heard. So this will be the first time since I was 17 that I won't have my full-time Microsoft job. And I'm not really sure what that last day is going to be like. It could be a bit strange, you know - what do you do on your last day? So I have some friends to help me prepare for that. So we got together and did a little video. So let's take a look at that. (Video segment.) I really don't think it's an accurate representation of what's likely to happen, but it was fun to put together. The transition, in fact, has been going very well, with Ray Ozzie and Craig Mundie stepping up to take over my full-time responsibilities. Of course, after the transition I'll have a few projects that I pick, that are still about the magic of software, including things like how software can advance education, and how software can advance healthcare around the world. The Second Digital Decade  Robbie Bach, Microsoft President, Entertainment and Devices Division, speaks during the 2008 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nev. Jan. 6, 2008.Click for high-res version So the foundation of the second digital decade, the advances taking place there will be very, very important in that thrust. The second digital decade will be more focused on connecting people. It will be more focused on being user-centric. Microsoft will deliver platforms that will let people build applications. Those applications will run not only on the PC, they'll run up in the Internet, or in the cloud, as we say, on the phone, in the car, in the TV. The applications will use the best of rich platforms and those Internet services. When we talk about services, we mean a huge variety of things, and things yet to be invented, the mapping services, the payment services, the friends lists, and storage that you can have in a very effective way up in the cloud itself. These services will span work and business. The personal computer has always been a device that spans that boundary. That's been part of the beauty of it. So even things that are incredibly oriented to the business side we'll be able to up-scale, and simplify them with cloud-based approaches. So a lot of big advances will underlie this new class of applications. Things that we haven't tackled yet, like the ultimate change to all of TV, or to reading, or to healthcare and education. Those will be enabled by these elements. The three key elements I'd highlight are first, high definition experiences everywhere. Screen technology is getting better, not just the high definition displays, but projection that will let us project onto every wall. Your desk, we won't just have the computer on the desk, but in the desk, so a meeting room table as you're collaborating, and the living room if you want to briefing up and play games with something like a Surface, or organize your photos. It will just be there, and easy to manipulate, easy to change and have multiple people connect up. The quality of the rendering, whether it's playing something like a game, or walking through the downtown with a Virtual Earth type concept will be very, very rich. 3D environments will exist for many of the Web experiences, walking through a store, meeting people in a social 3D environment. So we'll apply high quality video, high quality audio in a very pervasive way. Second, all of these rich devices will be service connected. And so getting the latest software, the browsing applications, and getting your data, you'll just take that for granted. The idea that when you take a photo that it shows up in the place that you'd like it to show up, that would be extremely simple. No longer will users have to bridge between the devices, and they're the ones who have to remember what's where. By having essentially the master of what's going on stored up in the cloud, things like docking up, connecting, searching across devices will be very simple, and the information, of course, can be shared across many users in a very strong way. In fact, if you just pick up the device and authenticate who you are, then you'll connect up to your information. So when you get a new phone, or want to borrow a device it will be a very, very simple thing to be up and running in a strong way. As you're moving around, even your activities that you want to have handy, with stills and motion, and so organizing memories that you have, the memories of your kids growing up, and having the system find what's relevant to you, presented in a rich way, that digital memory application will be one that is broadly used and very important. And yet, today without these capabilities, it's something that you can't achieve. The devices will know your context, they'll know your location. Finally, the third element, perhaps one that people underestimate the most, I would say, is the power of natural user interface. The first digital decade was largely driven by the keyboard and the mouse. Just in the last two years we've started to see the emergence of other modes of interaction. Touch on the Windows PC, touch on the iPhone, the Surface device that we're talking about. We started to see speech, - the Tellme capability - built into the phone, the Ford Sync, where you get to talk and interact with your media or your phone capabilities. The reaction to those natural interface implementations has been very dramatic. People are very interested in a simpler way of navigating the information. So the pen, with ink, touch, visual recognition, all of these come together with the other elements to create very new experiences. Gestures so that you can get things done, sitting in front of the TV set. So we're just at the beginning of this, and this is something the software industry will build into the platform, so individual developers don't have to go off and do that complicated work. Even areas where we haven't thought about software empowerment, like the retail experience: walking in and picking a product you want to customize, or home automation is finally, I think, simple enough that we can bring it forward with natural user interface. So some key elements that are very different, and show that the long-term research and innovation that we've done over the previous years will come together and be drivers for these next ten years. A key building block certainly for Microsoft is the Windows platform. We'll evolve that and use it as really the centerpiece building block. This actually was an incredible year for PCs. PC sales grew over 13 percent. Of course, that's a really gigantic base, and it's been amazing to see that. Next year, again, the prediction is for double-digit growth. A year ago, we launched Vista. I'm pleased to say that we've got over 100 million people using Vista now, and that's a very significant milestone for the kind of applications development, and special hardware work that we think is very important. We have great partners building neat new form factor PCs using unique capabilities. A lot of these are portable devices. A lot of them are far more stylish than anything you've seen before, smaller, fitting into new ways that people use personal computers. We have online services. We and many other companies are seeing incredible growth in those. For us, our Windows Live now, over 400 million people using those services, including the new version rolled out a few months ago. Windows Mobile, over 10 million new users last year, and double that in the next year. So quite a variety of form factors, and a growing platform there because as the capabilities of the phone have now gotten so rich, the breadth of applications that you want to run there is getting larger and larger. And that is certainly an environment where the input has been a limiting factor, and the new platform capabilities will really allow you to do applications that were impossible before. Connected Experiences: Windows Vista, Windows Live and Windows Mobile I wanted to give you a quick glimpse of some of the things that excite us about the latest developments with Vista Live and Mobile, so let me ask Mika Krammer, who is the director of Windows Product Management, to come up and show us some of the highlights of what I've been talking about. Welcome, Mika. MIKA KRAMMER: Thank you, Bill. (Applause.) My life is my family, my friends, work, my lifeline is Windows. Windows Vista, Windows Live, Windows Mobile connect and integrate my life in a way that's simple and familiar. Gone are the days of multiple sign-ins, and multiple contact lists, multiple hassles. With my single Windows Live ID all my services, my e-mail, my calendar, are integrated, they're personalized, and they're connected so that with one single Live ID they all come to life. Tonight I want to share with you some of what's fresh and new, some of what helps me stay connected. I have to tell you, one of the things that I really struggle with is making sure that everyone is in the right place at the right time. With the new Windows Live calendar, I can overlay my mom's calendar and my husband's calendar so that we can organize and plan. I'm throwing a party for my friend Gina, and I need to see if my mom can help and take the kids. I see here that she's available, which is great. I am sure that she would be more than happy to take my three very well-behaved boys. Now I want to see who can come to the party. Here's a new Windows Live event. I've used it to invite guests, keep track of who can come, and I'm really entertained by reading the very creative excuses from those who can't. I can also go back on this site, and everyone who came to the party can come back on this site, and we can share photos with everyone. There's only one problem in that I forgot to invite Bill. Easy fix, all I have to do, because I've logged on with my Windows Live ID, I don't have to remember everyone's e-mail, I don't have to reenter everyone's e-mail, because it's right here. Select Bill and send him a quick note - bring your snowboard. I also want to share a picture of our rendezvous spot and where we're going, and I know that picture is somewhere here in my computer. If you're like me, you know there's some picture somewhere on your computer, but sometimes it's kind of tricky to find the one you want. Well, with the Windows Live Photo Gallery, I can find what I want and edit in an instant. Check this out. I've got multiple pictures of the same location. I can select them all, and very easily create an amazing panoramic photo. But if you're like most people - snapshots in a shoebox - so the pictures are in your computer, on your phone, in your camera, no one gets to see them. With Windows Live, it's so much easier to share. Check that out, isn't that something you'd want to share? (Applause.) All right. All I have to do is fix it up a little bit, take out the rough edges, and I can share it in e-mail, or I can share it on the Web. I can either publish it on Flickr or to my Windows Live Space. I think I'll go to my Windows Live Space. Sharing pictures has never been easier. It takes me to my Windows Live Space, and it will be updated immediately for everyone to see. Now in terms of my Live Space, I also want to get people excited about the trip, and so what I want to do is be able to provide a picture of Whistler, and snowboarding. With Windows Live video search, it's a snap. All I have to do is hit Whistler and snowboarding, and I've been checking out these videos, and rather than have to download every single video every time I want to see one, all I have to do is run my cursor on top and it's there in an instant. All I have to do is now upload my site, and I'll do that later. When I'm on the go, Windows comes with me. With Windows Live Mobile, I can search the Web, I can check out local traffic, I can instant message, and I can share photos. Recently, I just with one click sent this photo from Vegas up onto my Live Space. You know, now the old adage that what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas no longer applies, it's up there on my Space for everyone to see. We all lead busy lives, and quite frankly we all could use a little help. With Windows Live, Windows Vista, Windows Mobile what's familiar is now integrated and connected, what's achievable is redefined. Thank you. (Applause.) Microsoft Surface in Retail BILL GATES: Well, I got invited to that snowboard thing, so I've got to buy one of these things. And so I'm in a snowboard store, and what they've got for me is a Microsoft Surface. And that's going to let me customize the board, let my personality show through. Of course, what it is is just a Windows PC with some camera hardware and some special software that came out of our research work that recognizes any gestures that I make. It recognizes objects, it recognizes multiple fingers. It's very, very rich. So I can take this board and say, okay, that looks good, I really want to see what I can do to the top and the bottom, and it's just plain right now, so let's design my own. I can take some boards that other people have done and thought was good, pick one of those and bring that down, put that pattern on my top, and that's the old free ride, looks good. Now let me select some of these decals, I'll take that snowflake, if I want color I just say, ’OK, this is a color wheel, slide around, that looks good.’ Now, you know, I don't know what size I want, but let me move it on here so I can see how it looks, put it right there, perfect. So that side has probably got enough on it. Let me go to the other side and actually put a signature, so when I'm in the air and people are down below me, they'll know what's up there. I'll take that and size that, and put it over here on the bottom of my board. There we go. I've got something that looks pretty good. In fact, let me finish by putting some bindings on here, so I know exactly what that's going to look like. And I think that's a good-looking snowboard. But really, before I actually buy it, I would like to show it to my friends. So I simply put my phone down - that gets recognized - and I get the choice of either just putting on the phone, or putting it up on the Internet on Windows Live. I'll select Windows Live as my option there. It goes up and now it's going to access it, come back and do more work on it. So it's been a fun, simple retail experience. I didn't need to learn anything to be able to use that application. We see Surface showing up in many, many different situations, maybe even here in Las Vegas as a new flexible interface. NBC, MSN to Bring the Olympics to the Web with Silverlight Another big announcement for us last year was the introduction of a Web technology called Silverlight, the ability to do video and animation in a very rich way. Silverlight came out with some neat capabilities shipped in its first version. It's gotten a great response. We see it as the runtime that will let people do new media experiences. It brings the design world and the rich development tools world together on top of a great runtime that we will make pervasive. I'm pleased to announce today that we have a perfect partner to showcase Silverlight, and that is that NBC has chosen Microsoft, the MSN Group, as its exclusive U.S. partner for online video footage for the 2008 Olympics. And what we'll do is, we'll take the 3,600 hours of all of the different events, and we'll make it available live, we'll make it available on demand, and we'll let you customize so that you can see what you're interested in, be alerted of the different things taking place. And this type of live event programming is something MSN has gotten very good at with events like Live Earth. And so it's going to let us illustrate why TV is going to be very different. Events like this in the broadcast format just aren't as satisfying, not as great as we'll be able to make the Olympics. Let's go ahead and hear from NBC their perspective on the unique things we'll do together. (Video segment.) Well, I'll certainly enjoy the Olympics as a spectator. I can watch all the different sports, and all the things that really grab me. So I think that a partnership there is going to be a very important one. Now I want to invite on stage Robbie Bach, who is the president of our Entertainment and Devices Division. They're doing some amazing things to drive this vision of connected experience. So let's hear from Robbie about how that's going. ROBBIE BACH: Thanks, Bill. Good to see you. Robbie Bach: Connected Entertainment with Windows Gaming, Xbox and Zune So it's good to be here again to talk about connected entertainment. Last year I described connected entertainment to you as the process of enabling people to get their video, their music, their gaming on any device and any place where they want it. I want to talk about the successes we've had in 2007 in delivering on that, and also give you a peek at some of the things that are coming in the future to continue to building connected entertainment. First we'll start with gaming, and in the past year with the release of Vista, Windows gaming has continue to grow and be strong. Vista was a great operating system for gaming. It's doing a fabulous job there. And Windows is far and away the largest gaming platform in the world and continues to grow. Now, Xbox on a worldwide basis has had tremendous success, as well, 17.7 million consoles shipped to date. And we are on track this year in the U.S. to have the biggest year ever in videogame history in the United States. In the U.S., through November, we did US$ 3.5 billion of business. That's $ 1 billion more than Nintendo did on the Wii, and it's $ 2 billion more than Sony did on the PS3. And if you look at spend on Xbox 360 games, it's more than the spending on Wii and PS3 games combined. So our Xbox business is in a very, very good place. In addition, we continue to grow on Xbox Live, the online gaming service that supports Xbox. I'm excited to announce tonight that we have passed the 10 million member mark for members on Xbox Live, that's six months faster than we expected to get to that number. So a tremendous momentum around what's going on with Xbox Live. Certainly, a lot of the time people on Xbox Live, they're playing games, but they are also enjoying TV and movies, and we have two very important announcements on that front tonight, as well. DVR Anywhere and Connected TV Experiences: Xbox, Media Center and Media Room First, I'm excited to announce that ABC and Disney will be bringing their TV shows to Xbox Live this month. On Disney that means shows like Hanna Montana, High School Musical, and on ABC top rated shows like Lost, Grey's Anatomy, Desperate Housewives and others. This is a tremendous opportunity for us to continue to expand video content on Xbox and bring more consumers into the Xbox Live experience. In addition, we're not only adding in the TV space, we're also adding in the movie space. We're excited to announce tonight that MGM is bringing its library of films to Xbox Live. This includes classics like Rocky, Terminator, Silence of the Lambs, Legally Blonde and many more. Xbox Live, when we're done integrating this content, will offer more than twice as many hours of on-demand, high definition content as any cable or satellite provider. Over 35 studios and networks are supporting us now, and it's quite clear that online distribution is going to be a powerful force in the future of video. Our approach to television is not just through Xbox, of course. Media Center continues its success and is on the vast majority of the 100 million-plus Vista PCs that are in the market today. And in addition to having Media Center on the PC, it's very important that we increase what's called the Extender technology, this is the ability to take content that's on a Media Center PC and extend it through a TV. Now, Xbox 360 is the first place we got started with the Extender technology, and that's been quite successful. Tonight we are announcing that Samsung and HP will also be introducing new extender devices that connect the TV. And HP will be the first to build Extender into their new high definition TVs with their Media Smart TV. So that's on the Media Center side. Finally, in the TV space we have our product Media Room. Now, Media Room is our IPTV service that delivers high definition TV, DVR, and interactivity through top service providers like British Telecom, Deutsche Telecom, AT&T, and 17 others around the world. To date we now have 1 million TV screens on our Media Room service, and that number is advancing very, very rapidly. We also have some key announcements in the Media Room space tonight. First is a technology which we call DVR Anywhere. This is the ability to record on your Media Room system content in one place, and distribute it to other TVs around the house that are on the network. We also are announcing some interactive applications we're developing with Showtime, TNT, and CNN. This will give you the ability, for example, in a NASCAR race to product your view of what the race was like. So I can pick car number 35, or I can go into the pit and watch car 22 and its pit stop, and produce that interactive experience myself. With CNN we're doing an application around the election, and the ability for people to customize and understand the political situation, and the election process in the United States, in a very interactive way on the TV. The final announcement around Media Room, last year here we talked about Xbox 360 being a set top box for the Media Room service. This year we're excited to announce that British Telecom will be the first operator to provide that capability, and you'll be able to buy an Xbox 360 through BT, use it as a gaming console, as well as a set top box on your TV. When you look at all of this together, what we've done on Xbox and Xbox Live, what we're doing on Media Center, and what we're doing in Media Room, it's abundantly clear that building great, connected TV experiences is not a hobby for Microsoft. This is something we take quite seriously, and we think we can build a great business with great products for our customers. Music is Social, Music is Mobile: Zune and Ford Sync Now, when you go beyond that to the music space, I want to talk briefly about Zune. Now, the new versions of Zune that came out this fall are doing very, very well. We've had fabulous response to the product in reviews, and I think it's quite clear we're becoming the clear alternative to the iPod. With capabilities like subscriptions, Wi-Fi, and a social experience we think we can differentiate ourselves in this space, and we think there's plenty of opportunity for that market to grow. In fact, we've been so pleased with the results in the United States for the first time we will begin selling Zune outside the United States and Canada this spring, and there will be more opportunities for us to expand in the future. I will say that music is inherently a social experience, and we want to build on that social experience. And that's why we introduced this concept called Zune Social. Now, Zune Social is in beta right now. It has about 1.5 million people who have tried the service out initially, and we want to give you a chance to understand what Zune Social is. So I want to invite Molly O'Donnell on stage to show us how consumers can discover music through Zune Social. Molly? (Applause.) MOLLY O'DONNELL: Thank you, Robbie. ROBBIE BACH: So take us through Zune Social. MOLLY O'DONNELL: Sure, welcome to the Zune Social. Right here, let's just take a quick tour, you'll see that I'm on my personal profile page, on my Zune Social site. And at the centerpiece of the Zune Social is this Zune Card. It's your personal Zune Card which you can personalize like I did with my Zune Tag, my Zune Picks, and I even have some background wallpaper here with one of my favorite pieces of art work. What the Zune Card does is really tracks my most listened to artist, my most listened to song, and of course, I've tagged some of my favorite artists. ROBBIE BACH: So it's actually tracking everything you're doing on your Zune, on the PC, or on the device? MOLLY O'DONNELL: That's right. So my friends can see that Ted Leo, or Rufus Wainwright, or Band of Horses are some of my favorite bands. And it does that in real time, and in a dynamic way. So it's really cool for you to track, but mostly for your friends to track. The community has actually embraced this, and taken this to the next level, and they've made an application already that you can simply post your Zune Card to your Facebook page where you may spend a lot of time, or any social networking or blog site. But the really cool part of the social, it's all about people-powered music discovery. And what I mean by that is I'll show you. As I scroll down here with my friends list, you can see my friends, you can see what they've been listening to, the last three tracks, Edie Pres, I think this is you. ROBBIE BACH: So, let's go take a look. We should take a look at my page, and see what's been on there. MOLLY O'DONNELL: OK, great. So, here you are, and I can look down the right-hand side of Robbie's page, and I can discover his most recently played songs. ROBBIE BACH: Clearly some of this music is dating me a bit. MOLLY O'DONNELL: Well, it's there for everyone to see. ROBBIE BACH: There you go. MOLLY O'DONNELL: We have your favorites and your most played artists. I notice up here some of your favorites include Jack Johnson, John Legend, The Fray. The top of the list is The Shins, and The Shins are a cool band, and they happen to be huge Xbox 360 fans. So, I'm going to jump to their site. So, what we have here is the Zune social site for The Shins. ROBBIE BACH: So, they've created their own card for the band. MOLLY O'DONNELL: That's right. So, what this is, is you can see their albums, but you can also see the top played songs from the Zune Social site - and you can see the top fans of The Shins. You can see here this is yet another act of discovery, because you can say this fan that likes The Shins also likes The Silversun Pickups, and The Decemberists. If I wanted to, I could go check them out, because maybe since I like The Shins, I'll like them too. Again, a really cool act of discovery; you can spend a lot of time here. But we don't have a lot of time, so I'm going to just jump up here. You can see Sleeping Lessons. It's a bit of an old song, came out last year, but I've been meaning to buy it. I could either sample a track or simply click to buy. What that does is it closes the loop from discovery of a song to purchasing. So, you see here that I'm in Zune Marketplace, and with a click of a button I can download and then synch it to my Zune, and it's all set. ROBBIE BACH: So, now you've seen the full circle of people exploring, finding new songs, finding friends, having an experience, and ultimately buying and helping to build the music business in a stronger way. MOLLY O'DONNELL: That's right. And I don't know about you, Robbie, I'm a fulltime working mom, and I don't really have a lot of time to be listening to music on my PC. So, when I do listen to music, it's on my device and on the go and in a car. So, if we had a car to show you -- ROBBIE BACH: Well, I think we can probably accommodate you. So, let's move from Zune Social and we'll talk about the automotive space a little bit. Microsoft launched our Microsoft auto product in Europe with Fiat, and they've done a fabulous job running our software, and then last year we announced a partnership with Ford to produce what is called Ford Sync. That's powered by our Microsoft auto software. In the United States Ford expects to ship nearly a million Sync-enabled cars next year, and they are expanding it across their line of Ford, Mercury, and Lincoln cars, including this new 2008 Lincoln MKS. Molly is in the car, and I'm going to jump in with her, and we're going to give you a sense of how this works. OK, take it away, Molly MOLLY O'DONNELL: All right. So, when I'm driving, like most people, I want my hands on the wheel, and my eyes on the road, but I also want to do a little bit of multitasking. I want to be able to access all my devices. With Sync you can just that. So, for example, the Zune that I was just talking about, or it works with any MP3 player, easily plugs into the console here, and the thousands of songs that I have loaded here are all synched to the car. Additionally I have here my Windows Mobile phone, and it will work with any Bluetooth-enabled cell phone, and all my hundreds of contacts that I want to call, my friends, my family, are all automatically downloaded and synched into my car for easy hands-free. All you need to do, you can do all of these things while driving, just with the sound of your voice. ROBBIE BACH: So, why don't we try -- let's try playing a track. MOLLY O'DONNELL: OK, great. Let's do that. Maybe you can pick one of your favorite songs. COMPUTER: Please say a command. ROBBIE BACH: Play track Cars. COMPUTER: Playing track Cars. (Music plays.) ROBBIE BACH: I like that. Now, I could do the same thing with a phone where I would say call a person, call their work, call their home, call their cell phone number, and again get that great easy experience using voice to control the system. MOLLY O'DONNELL: Absolutely. ROBBIE BACH: Fantastic. MOLLY O'DONNELL: Simple as that. ROBBIE BACH: Thanks. So, the other exciting thing about what's happening in this auto space is that that system is now upgradeable. So, one of the things that Ford is going to offer is a new upgrade to Sync, which they call 911 Assist. Basically the way 911 Assist works, if the airbag deploys on the car, the software will tell you, I'm going to make a 911 call. And unless you stop it, it will then automatically call 911 so that emergency services arrive to help you out. So, that gives you some idea of what's going on in the car space. Now, when I'm here in Vegas, we don't actually spend much time in the car, because it's actually quite difficult to get around that way, so we spend a lot of time walking, and I'm mostly on my mobile phone. So, I want to talk a little bit about Windows Mobile. Now, we all know that phones outsell PCs by about four to one, and Windows Mobile is a leader in that space. Phones are going to be a big platform. PCs are going to continue to be super important and continue to grow, but at the rate of expansion for phones, it's going to be very important for the future. Windows Mobile today outsells Blackberry, outsells iPhone. We're on pace this fiscal year to sell 20 million phones, which is almost double what we sold last year, with Windows Mobile software on it. Mobile Search and TellMe Finds What Need from the Road Now, one of the huge growth areas is in mobile search, and voice is really going to be the natural way to use a phone with mobile search. Our TellMe service is the leader in this space with over 2 billion voice searches last year, mostly through the 411 service. In the future they're going to introduce something called Say and See, and I want to give you a chance to see that. So, I want to invite Molly back up on stage to show us that service. Molly? MOLLY O'DONNELL: Great. So, it's very simple, easy, and powerful, and let me show you how it works. You see that I've launched TellMe, and it's already identified that we're here in Las Vegas. So, if I want to search for a local business, say like movies, I can just do that. Let me show you. Push the talk button: Movies. ROBBIE BACH: Now, because it has GPS, it's going to go out and find the theatres in the area around here, correct? MOLLY O'DONNELL: It did, and it is searching right now. It's brought up the list of the closest theatres. I see here that the UA Showcase one is only about a mile away, so I'm going to select that. ROBBIE BACH: Oh, we've got to go see Sweeney Todd. We have to see this. So, get us some tickets. MOLLY O'DONNELL: OK. So, not only is it showing you show times, but it's also showing you all the selections. So, let's get Sweeney Todd. Buy what. Two tickets for Sweeney Todd at 9:20. So, searching. I think at 9:20 we should be good to go. ROBBIE BACH: Now, do I get to go to the movie at 9:20? Am I part of the invitation? MOLLY O'DONNELL: Definitely. ROBBIE BACH: Oh, that's good, that's good. MOLLY O'DONNELL: Anybody in your contacts. This is the cool part about it is you can share with anybody in your phone contacts list, and you can just press "share" and again do a press to talk, and you'll have a text message on your cell phone. So, send to Robbie Bach. ROBBIE BACH: So, now it's going to send that to my cell phone, and I should be able to pick that up. MOLLY O'DONNELL: So, it's finding you. There you are. I've shared it with you, and you should have a text waiting for you with all the information. ROBBIE BACH: Perfect. Thanks very much, Molly. That's awesome. MOLLY O'DONNELL: Thanks a lot. (Applause.) ROBBIE BACH: So, now let me come back here, and you're going to see that on my Windows Mobile phone here I have the text message here, received it from Molly. I'm going to select enter, and notice it's two tickets for Sweeney Todd, and I've got it there. I'm going to scroll down here, and go to that link. There is this free trailer for Cloverfield from Paramount that I want to look at, so let me scroll down into that. Go to that Web site, I can scroll down here, there's the exclusive trailer. Now I can play that on my Windows Mobile phone. So, you're going to see that trailer play here. (Video segment.) ROBBIE BACH: So, this is another fabulous way for our connected entertainment experience to be seen. Now, the exciting thing and the interesting thing about that scenario is it's an example of how advertising campaigns can play a role in providing entertainment in new ways and with new economics. This is an example of places where we're working with partners like Paramount, Best Buy and Verizon. When you add that to things we're doing in the broader advertising space with the acquisition of aQuantive and recent deals we've done with companies like Viacom, Microsoft is taking a very serious approach to the advertising space, and I think we're going to be quite successful there. The mobile advertising market alone is going to be about $ 11 billion in 2011, and I think with all the work we're doing we're very well positioned to take advantage of that. Now, just to wrap that all together in connected entertainment, I'm very personally excited about what we're doing in connected entertainment, and think we're the best positioned company to deliver on that vision. We're number one in gaming. We're the leader in connected TV across what we do with Media Room, Xbox Live, and Media Center. We're being very innovative in the approach to Zune and bringing new social experiences. You've seen the great work we're doing in the car and with car infotainment. And we are taking advantage of new opportunities in mobile to continue to build that great business. All of this is being done in the context of building community services and new advertising and business models. When you take all of that together, it's clear that software and services are going to be key to connected entertainment, and Microsoft is poised to deliver. Thank you. (Applause.) Now, we talked about where we are today, and before our big finale, I do want to bring Bill on stage to show some things in the future and where we're going to go. So, Bill, why don't you take us through a little bit of the future of what you see happening? Gates: Looking Ahead to the Second Digital Decade BILL GATES: Well, the software advances, even very advanced things like visual recognition will be in the phone platform. This is being developed by the Microsoft Research group. It's fairly new stuff. ROBBIE BACH: You can tell it came from the lab; there's no question about that. BILL GATES: Hot out of the lab. So, I've got this unusual device, but it's connected up and running that visual software. So, as I walk around, as I see different people or see sites, it will actually help me out. So, as I walk up to you, the device reminds me that you owe me some money. (Laughter.) ROBBIE BACH: Yeah, we're going to come back to that $ 20 in a little bit. That's a disputed amount. So, we'll come back and see on that. BILL GATES: Well, that's very handy. Of course, we could go out, walk around outside. We've got this picture here. So, I can do that without leaving the stage. But as I point up at this theatre, that's another thing it will recognize. In fact, as soon as it does, it will let me know what's playing there, maybe what tickets are available, what kind of seats. ROBBIE BACH: It's also running an advertisement that sort of plays off what's at that theatre, so again interactive business model. BILL GATES: Then as I'm happy with that, I look around some more, and I've got a restaurant I'm going to that is somewhere down here, I'm not even really sure, but my phone knows that's where I'm headed, recognizes it, shows that to me, and offers to show me the path down there, guide me. Now, this uses the Virtual Earth 3D visualization that we're doing that is just fantastic. So, you see all the buildings and sites as I walk down there, so I've got that clearly in mind, or I could go back and step through that. I see the current reservation and the menu and everything. I think I'm set for that. Then if I point to another location here, I'll point to the Venetian, and as I do that, it reminds me, of course, I've got this keynote that I'm doing, says Steve is here, but he's playing the slots. ROBBIE BACH: Well, that's pretty typical, don't you think? BILL GATES: Yeah, I guess. ROBBIE BACH: Now, it also says, Bill, that there is some CES history there. You've done a number of keynotes here. There must be some amazing memories and histories from that. BILL GATES: Yeah, one of the great things about this type of device, which this will be in the phone that you carry around, its ability to acquire the videos, the stills, the calendar and organize those by using that information so they're very easy to access, will be pretty phenomenal. So, if I just click here on that history, we should be able to call up the different kind of clips that were pulled together when I did the CES keynote, and see a way that those have actually been organized. So, when it starts out, I can see all the different media pieces, kind of a slick 3D interface, and then at first it starts with media, people, and different information I've presented. Another way we could look at it is we could see what the celebrities were. ROBBIE BACH: Oh, this is the fun part of your keynote is who the celebrities have been in them, right? BILL GATES: You bet. ROBBIE BACH: I remember The Rock. I was there for the 2001. That was the launch of Xbox, right? BILL GATES: Yep. (Video segment.) BILL GATES: We can move on from that one. (Laughter.) Let's see, we've got quite a few here. Maybe we'll click over and call up Conan ROBBIE BACH: This is the year none of the demos worked, I believe. That was a memorable year, wasn't it? BILL GATES: That was great. (Video segment.) Conan was hamming it up there. (Laughter.) ROBBIE BACH: Now, on the right there, Bill, it looks like there's something that looks like it's sort of a TV barcode. What's going on there? BILL GATES: Well, we'll see how quick this thing can do its job. Click on that, and because it does such brilliant acquisition, we even see the keynote that was just given, and a little clip of that. ROBBIE BACH: So, it's recording it as we go through this right now? BILL GATES: That's right. It knows that I was at the keynote, and the idea is that you're not going to have to take a lot of steps, manual steps, that this would just happen for you, and so all your past information is there and easy to view in a really neat way. ROBBIE BACH: So, that's an awesome view of what we're doing today, what we're doing in the future, and where we think this can go. But I do have one last challenge. Now, we have this $ 20 that I supposedly owe you, and I've got one last challenge for you. I want to see how good you are in Guitar Hero III. (Laughter.) BILL GATES: All right. I played over the holiday. You can go ahead and bring it on. ROBBIE BACH: Yeah, you've been practicing. I figured you've been practicing, so let's play us some guitars. Put our guitars on here. (Cheers, applause.) This is sort of like delivering some dueling banjos I guess. We'll take a look at that now. Actually, Bill, since I know you're competitive, and I know you've been practicing, I actually decided I need to bring a ringer to help me. So, I want to invite on stage Guitar Hero champion, Kelly Law-Yone, better known by her gamertag as TipperQueen. She's going to be my entrant into the contest. (Applause.) Take it away. KELLY LAW-YONE: Thank you, Robbie, for having me out here in Las Vegas. Let's show Bill how to really rock out. (Guitar Hero III contest.) (Cheers, applause.) ROBBIE BACH: She's pretty good. So, I don't think she missed a note, so I think somehow you might owe me $ 20. You're going to have to bring it on hard to be able to beat that. BILL GATES: Well, it turns out I've got my own ringer here. (Laughter.) That's right, I've got one of the Guitar Hero III gods himself, Slash from Velvet Revolver. (Cheers, applause.) (Guitar Hero III contest/cheers, applause.) BILL GATES: I think you still owe me. ROBBIE BACH: Well, Kelly, I hate to say it, but I think I owe him the 20 bucks. I think he once again got me. Ladies and gentlemen, thank you very much. I will see you again next year. Thanks again. (Cheers, applause.) |
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