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For that previous ten a long time, the top part of Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates; Customer Electronics Present keynotes, to me, have already been the futuristic look-aheads.I haven;t been as wowed through the partnership offers set to kick in over the next year or so. Nor the new PCs, devices, software program (and, as of late, services) which have just began to ship or will in a make a difference of months. But I constantly looked forward towards the way-out there, long-term, pie-in-the-sky computing scenarios that produced audiences oooh and aaah.At this year;s keynote — which will be Gates; last (at least for the foreseeable future) — there were not quite a few hints about Microsoft;s view of the coming digital decade. Instead, the focus was on sales tallies for Windows Vista (100 million retail copies sold); Xbox Live members (10 million); Xbox 360 gaming consoles (17.7 million sold to date); Windows Live users (420 million worldwide) and MediaRoom IPTV setboxes installed (1 million).In component, the de-emphasis on what Microsoft envisions for that longer term may have already been intentional. Microsoft may have wanted to give Gates a chance to bask in the glow of keynotes of a long time past. Or perhaps it;s a sign of the new Microsoft: One where discussions of futures are going to be severely curtailed.The only truly futuristic technology that Gates showed during his hour-plus CES appearance was a piece of visual-recognition software program under development by Microsoft Research that,Windows 7 Pro, some day, may be integrated into cell phones and other products. Gates pointed a black-box mock-up device at faces and the software program instantly recognized and identified them,Office Enterprise 2007, providing all kinds of related information (like how much money they owe you). Point the device at a theater and it provided the theater name,Office 2010 Download, address and a list of movies playing. Gates showed a slick,Windows 7 32bit, 3D interactive interface that would act as the central focal point for all of the visual data stored on a device, organizing it into browseable categories.I was hoping Gates would pull a Steve Jobs and say at the incredibly end of his remarks, “We have one more thing…” and indicate off Windows Live “Horizon” or a sneak peek of Windows Mobile 7, or the “Pink and Purple” project;s Zune phone,Microsoft Office 2010 Professional Plus, or — heck, even just a glimpse of “Fiji.”But nope. That was all, folks.What did you think of Gates; last CES hurrah?