CES: Gates Touts Digital Decade for Consumers
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Microsoft Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates opened the 2001 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) Monday night with a keynote address that touched on the company's upcoming digital media integration products and services. Chief among these are "Freestyle," a set of technologies for bridging the gap between the PC and the living room, and "Mira," a networking technology for extending the reach of XP-based PCs to connected devices in the home. But Gates also found time to tout recent advances for Windows XP, the Xbox video game, and MSN, touched off with some of the tech giant's trademark self-depreciating humor.