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Rumor: Microsoft's CES keynote to be a yawnfest
Rumor: Microsoft's CES keynote to be a yawnfest
Later this week, Microsoft's Steve Ballmer will be taking the Consumer Electronics Show ( CES ) stage, filling Bill Gate's shoes to deliver the expo's keynote. Years past , we'd get excited at the possibility that Microsoft would reveal some juicy Xbox 360 news. But if TechCrunch is to be ...
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Rumor: 360 a footnote in Microsoft's CES keynote
Joystiq — ... global unveiling of the original Xbox. The site says that some media outlets have already been told -- under embargo -- that the only mention of 360 during MS head Steve Ballmer's presentation will be that Halo Wars and Halo 3: ODST are (brace yourself) scheduled for release in 2009. Though we already knew that, we suspect there will be those in attendance overhead saying "Halo wha?" and "2009 ... hey, that's now!" [Via X3F] ...

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