Ballmer bigs up Windows without walls vision

Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO, has delivered his first post-Gates CES keynote with a promise to bring the ‘three screens’ – mobile, PC and TV – together in a seamless experience, encouraging his audience to download the Windows 7 beta from Friday.

Using the phrase ‘Windows without walls’ to describe the above, he didn’t exactly blow the audience away but he managed to push the point home as Microsoft starts to deliver on some of its promises with products such as Live Mesh and the other latest-gen Windows Live apps.

"We’re at the start of transforming what Windows is from a PC operating system to a connected experience. When I think of the future of Windows I think of a life without walls."