Standing by as MS Group Product Manager Justin Hutchison confirmed Windows Home Server for Q2 2007, Microsoft supremo Bill Gates, in his tenth keynote speech to the CES, wore a pale blue shirt, plain slacks, and a confident, almost insouciant demeanor, like a Doge in The Venetian's Pallazo ballroom. Behind him stood monumental video screens. Above him was a ceiling slathered with ghastly simulations of renaissance works of art: women reclined, their poses taken from the Sistine Chapel, their facial expressions taken from hardcore pornographic movies.
"It drives harder in a very positive way," Hutchison said, confirming another much-anticipated item of news: the Xbox 360's forthcoming ability to act as an IPTV set-top box in those markets that carry the service. The big news for gadget fans, however, was the server news--a software system to be first embodied by Hewlett Packard's Smart Server, featuring automatic backup of networked computers, Zune connectivity, and a system of data redundancy that sounded suspiciously like RAID. Take that, Buffalo TeraStation Home Server.
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