CES: What Microsoft's Ballmer didn't say
This isn’t a typical keynote write-up. Usually, covering a keynote, I write about what executives say or announce. At the kick-off Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2011 keynote by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer on January 5, the more interesting bits were what Ballmer didn’t say.
He didn’t offer Windows Phone 7 sales numbers. (Microsoft said recently it had sold 1.5 million WP7 devices, but later admitted it had sold these to carriers, not consumers.)
He didn’t offer any new Windows 7 sales figures. He didn’t talk about Microsoft’s plans to compete with Apple TV and Google TV (or why it isn’t planning to do so).
