So CES has kicked off and kicking off the keynote for tonight was Microsoft CEO, Steve Ballmer. Ballmer was rumored to be announcing a tablet-like device from HP that would rival Apple’s rumored tablet. Needless to say Apple was surely watching very closely to see what Microsoft had to unveil. Needless to say, it was another underwhelming display of been there, done that. The tablet neither excited me nor did it seem to make a splash in the market as few sights thus far have jumped on the story as the next big thing.
Does this mean the tablets are useless?
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Marketing in Microsoft has always been a strong area (I think it is the main reason that Microsoft is Microsoft today) and they do not hesitate to go a little further every time. This time: Presenting Windows 7 Steve Ballmer’s Edition.
Well it is not exactly what you may think; it does not have special “Ballmer features”, or using only desktop backgrounds with Microsoft’s CEO. But what it does have is a special box edition with Ballmer’s signature.
The lucky ones that will receive this package are those that are throwing a Windows 7 party (we’ve discussed this earlier). But here’s an interesting story published by ArsTechnica: A very enthusiast Windows user sent an e-mail to Microsoft complaining that even though he completed the registration to Windows 7 party, no Caribbean countries were eligible to use it. So the company in response, sent the Windows 7 with Ballmer’s signature and the Windows 7 Party Kit.
Original story in sutffiwrote
I’m pretty sure that once this story hit public, a million complains were received from Microsoft. But still, sounds good to me that the company is trying to reward those enthusiast that are trying to help Windows 7 marketing, even though they participate in a contest or not.
