2013 CES Microsoft waved goodbye and gave up the product display, but many of the products displayed in the whole exhibition were accompanied by Microsoft. For Microsoft to give up this CES, there has also been a heated discussion in the industry, and the pros and cons are based on different reasons. A generation of industry giants, which have always played an important role in the keynote speech of CES, although they quit CES this time, they once bloomed bright and moving brilliance on the stage of CES. Let's review it.

1. 2000: e-books with Pocket PC platform

This is Microsoft's product on CES in 2000, an e-book platform called Reader. And finally PocketPC became the first smartphone platform of Windows Mobile Microsoft.

2. 2001: Xbox

Bill Gates first demonstrated Xbox at CES in 2001. Now Xbox has become a very profitable business for Microsoft, and it is still growing rapidly.

3. 2002: Freestyle and Mira

The two products code named Freestyle and Mira were the highlights of the CES Gates speech in 2002. Freestyle is a PC remote controller associated with the TV interface. It eventually became Windows Media Center, and is still part of Microsoft's business today. Mira is a flat panel display connected to the user's PC through wireless network, enabling PCs in different houses to interact.

4. 2003: Media2Go

In 2003, CES Microsoft decided to launch portable devices that support video and audio. In the end, this idea failed, and the company applied the remaining ideas to Zune and Windows Phone.

5. 2004: Media Center Extenders

In 2004, CES Microsoft exhibited Media Center Extenders, an idea about media centers. Microsoft finally applied this technology to Xbox.

6. 2006: Vista

There were few new Microsoft products on CES in 2006. Vista was a product that had been released before CES.

7. 2007: Windows Home Server

At CES in 2007, Microsoft demonstrated the central storage of media files for users. Of course, users can access the home server from any computer at home.
　

8. 2009: Windows 7

Ballmer made his first speech at CES, the year Microsoft released Windows 7 beta. After Windows Vista suffered a cold reception, Windows 7 was highly anticipated.

9. 2010: Windows 7 Tablets

In 2010, Microsoft's new product on CES was Windows 7 tablet computer. However, because of the iPad, the Windows 7 tablet was ignored in the market that year.

10. 2011: Windows Phone 7 smartphone

In 2011, Microsoft on CES appeared a bit bleak. When partners HTC, Samsung and LG pushed their new Android smartphones to the spotlight, Microsoft's new Windows Phone 7 smartphone was completely shrouded in their shadow.

11. 2012: Windows Phone smartphone and Windows 8

At CES in 2012, Microsoft finally brought Windows 8, and a series of Windows Phone The interface design of smart phones and small windows has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, which has deepened everyone's impression of Windows Phone smart phones.

As you can see, there are some years in which there are vacancies. Although these years Microsoft is also the company that is the keynote speaker of CES, it has not been included in the statistics because it has not been able to display new products.