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This isn;t a common keynote write-up. Usually,Microsoft Office 2010 Key, covering a keynote, I compose about what executives say or announce. At the kick-off Consumer Electronics Demonstrate (CES) 2011 keynote by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer on January 5, the far more interesting bits were what Ballmer didn;t say.He didn;t provide Windows Phone 7 income numbers. (Microsoft said not too long ago it had sold one.5 million WP7 gadgets, but later on admitted it had sold these to carriers,Windows 7 Professional, not consumers.)He didn;t offer any new Windows 7 revenue figures.He didn;t talk about Microsoft;s plans to compete with Apple Tv and Google Tv (or why it isn;t organizing to perform so).Most alarmingly, he didn;t have something to say about how Microsoft options to deal with the slate market beyond what firm officials have stated already — namely,Office 2007, that Windows seven makes a darn good slate/tablet operating system and will be the operating system that Microsoft makes available to its partners for the next two-plus years. I strongly disagree, as even the nicest looking Windows slates hitting the market are either 1. super pricey; 2. horrible re: battery life; 3. heavy/bulky; and/or 4. not touch-centric.Remember Ballmer said that Microsoft;s and its partners; answers to the iPad would be coming in 2011, and would be Intel Oak Trail dependent? Other than showing off the new Samsung Sliding PC, which is running Oak Trail, Microsoft execs didn;t have far more to say on that front.Ballmer did reiterate that the next version of Windows (which he didn;t call Windows 8) will run on ARM processors. He noted that Microsoft sold 8 million Kinect sensors in 60 days. (What he didn;t say is that the 8 million was product sales to the channel and not buyers. So we don;t really know how many buyers bought.) He noted that Netflix and Hulu soon will be Kinect-enabled on Xbox Live. And he noted that Microsoft will deliver a thinner (and hopefully cheaper) Surface 2.0 platform later this year.The most intriguing thing about Ballmer;s keynote handle,Windows 7 Activation, to me, was his closing: “Whatever device you use,Microsoft Office 2007 Product Key, now or during the future, Windows will be there.”I am taking the man at his word, and assuming that he is talking about Microsoft;s long-term goal: To make Windows (and not some Windows variant, like Windows Compact Embedded or Windows Telephone OS) the ubiqitious operating system to which developers will publish and customers will run. That, however is not a 2011 deliverable. It;s further away. Much.