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CES 2007: How'd Things Go Last Year?CES 2007: How'd Things Go Last Year?
<a href="http://www.macworld.com/news/2007/01/05/cespledges/index.php">Macworld</a> takes a look at how vendors did fulfilling promises at last year's CES. The upshot: Microsoft mostly delivered on its promises for Vista and for the Xbox 360. On the other hand, big promises for Blu-ray and HD-DVD fizzled. </p>
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Macworld takes a look at how vendors did fulfilling promises at last year's CES. The upshot: Microsoft mostly delivered on its promises for Vista and for the Xbox 360. On the other hand, big promises for Blu-ray and HD-DVD fizzled.
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Looking back at CES 2006, there's one more thing worth a mention. It wasn't announced at the show but was still on the lips of everyone at the consumer electronics blow-out. Remember the Google PC? It was supposed to be a low-cost computer running a Google-developed operating system that would be available at Wal-Mart. Reports suggested an unveiling at CES and thus reporters excitedly rushed to Larry Page's keynote but he never mentioned it and the computer never appeared - and still hasn't.
Looking back, the Google PC looks like a foolish prediction. Why should Google get into that highly competitive, difficult market? Let Dell, IBM, Microsoft and those guys provide the hardware, and Google can stick to what it does best: Providing software and services, mostly living on the Web.
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