Microsoft step down from CES

Reported this week is the 2012 CES will be Microsofts last fronting of the event.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/12/22/microsoft_dump_ces/

I've followed the keynote for a few years, actually sitting down watching it making notes - interested to see what Microsoft are trying to push out there. So although it is not a total surprise that they are pulling out it does mean I won't get that information about what they are doing. Of course a lot what they show never comes to pass, in that strange Microsoft way of never advertising something in simple terms but instead pitching between those "in the know" with over abstract marketing. Probably a symptom of a company that has been for so long a necessary evil bolt on, rather than someone you'd want to buy something from.