Microsoft doesn't even have a booth at CES 2014. Ballmer isn't present at all, not even walking around looking at the show. MS sales associates are walking around and having small meetings in the meeting rooms with certain select customers to answer their questions in private.
Intel did the keynote address on day one and had nothing much to say (MS and Google had told them to forget about their dual OS thing). No new wave of vaporwear chipsets, what you got is what you got for next year.
Attendees are saying it is mainly a refrigerator/washing machine and big flat screen television show. Nothing much is really new, really.
CES 2014 s sorta dull, in other words .....
None of the old school Silicone Valley or Washington State boys have all that much to contribute any more. I find this sad, but not unexpected.
The real show for 2014 will be the summer show in Taipei.
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Remember I said Ubuntu would be there at the show pitching at full governmental level uses?
Here is their "test case" that they are using to support their claims --
all of the French Police computer systems now are running Ubuntu, all 37,000 of them. They calculate a hard factual 40% year on year savings for cost of operating their computer systems on Ubuntu rather than MS/Novell/etc.
https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/sites/default/files/11-apresentacao-stephanedumond.pdf
you may need to type this into your browser as it is too long for some browsers to auto clickGovernments are being driven to consider moves like this due to inherent and severe security issues that have been seen from MS lately. The fact they can continue to use their existing hardware for another 10 years or so is just pouring gravy on these calculations .....
Face it, you need 3rd party softwares to make MS functional and secure enough to use, and that only adds to the cost and complexity of maintaining a MS/Novell/etc. system wide installation.
Ubuntu is being asked for 10 year lock in and support on their enterprise softwares (something Red Hat has been doing for years and years).
Red Hat is at the show too .... smiling and greeting folks who are shopping new secure government/enterprise level solutions.
Red Hat needs no examples, they have been doing it world-wide for well over a decade now.