As the time comes for folk to obtain the Vista O/S that has so far been released for business use only, we see the usual wafflle, but significant lack of new features to drive a purchase.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6239975.stmIn a speech with few concrete announcements, Mr Gates outlined how his firm's latest operating system Vista would be the tool to connect people.
"People want to do things with their content across multiple platforms," he said.
He said the hardware and content had been put in place "and the key thing missing is the connections".
Mr Gates also unveiled a new product in conjunction with HP which lets people store all their data on a central device and access from any number of Windows-connected products, including the Zune portable music player, the Xbox 360, PCs and phones.
The Windows Home Server is a storage system which can hold more than one terabyte of data.
Mr Gates also confirmed that next year would see his last keynote speech at CES as he steps down as head of Microsoft.
Lets home we see something really useful to users in the future rather than playing it safe with the media Cartel and introducing yet more "content protection" systems that steal the consumers rights in a stealthy fashion.
