CES 2012: MICROSOFT CEO STEVE BALLMER
ANNOUNCES STRONG CONSUMER MOMENTUM
~ Ryan Seacrest Talks
Tech with Ballmer, Touching on the Latest In TV, Mobile
Phones and PC Technology ~
January 2012
(Las Vegas, NV) -- In his
show opening keynote address at the International Consumer
Electronics Show (CES), Microsoft Chief Executive Officer
Steve Ballmer, showcased the company's latest consumer
offerings, including new Windows Phones from Nokia,
AT&T, HTC, and T-Mobile, new Windows 7 PCs, new content
partnerships and interactive TV experiences enabled
by Kinect for Xbox 360, and more.
Entertainment icon, Ryan Seacrest,
interviewed Ballmer onstage and introduced a series
of guests to showcase the company's latest products,
including:
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Bing voice search on Xbox to quickly find the big
game on live TV;
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Changing the way kids experience Sesame Street
- going from watching the show to jumping into Elmo's
world with Kinect-enabled two-way TV;
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A range of new ultra-light, ultra-thin Windows
7 PCs; and
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A new partnership with NewsCorp for Xbox Live featuring
content from leading broadcast, news and Web properties,
including Fox Broadcasting, Fox News, IGN Entertainment,
and The Wall Street Journal.
Microsoft's Metro style design
application that brings Xbox, Windows PCs and Windows
Phone together in a natural, intuitive way. Striking
a balance between the year ahead and the one just completed,
Ballmer detailed numbers that show consumers are excited
about what Microsoft has to offer:
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Xbox 360 is first in console sales with more than
66 million worldwide, and nearly 40 million Xbox
Live members;
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Over the last year, Kinect sold more than 18 million
sensors;
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Windows Phone has more than 50,000 published apps
and games in Marketplace - with an average of 300
more added each day;
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Windows 7 remains the fastest selling operating
system in history, with more than 500 million Windows
7 licenses sold, an average of one every seven seconds;
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Bing has more than doubled market share since launch,
and with partnership with Yahoo, powering nearly
30% of the U.S. searches.
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