Microsoft would like to stop with his annual keynote at the consumer electronics show CES. That says ZDNet. Instead, it would be the Redmondse generating big announcements want to keep them for his own events.
Microsoft is doing since many years a keynote at the consumer electronics show CES in early January in Las Vegas is held. According to the usually well established editor Mary Jo Foley of ZDNet, who is a full-time news about Microsoft writes, would make CES 2012 the last time that Microsoft ceo Steve Ballmer in his keynote at the trade show.
The reason would be that Microsoft are great announcements, want to save for their own events, such as Apple now does. This allows new products to be announced as they are ready. Apple stopped several years ago, MacWorld-keynotes for the same reason.
Foley relies on a well-informed source, but stressed that it is still a blow to the arm. In recent years, Microsoft announced at CES already, no major issues. Microsoft has also denied that the CES is a trial version of Windows 8 available to the public.
