During his annual keynote address at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates unveiled Windows Vista, the company's next generation operating system, and downplayed
competitive threats to the software giant from companies like Google and IBM. Among the new features available through Vista are 3-D scrolling between different windows, music filing and
high-definition video content. Gates said that software would be the key to unifying broadband and high def content, as software is ultimately the bridge between technology and content. In spite of
Google's massive challenge to Microsoft's ambitions for the Internet search and media business, Gates said IBM represents the greatest challenge to Microsoft. Vista is the company's first operating
system offering since 2001's Windows XP; Windows products account for more than a quarter of Microsoft's yearly revenue. Aside from demonstrating the capabilities of Microsoft's latest Windows
offering, Gates also discussed plans to work with MTV on Urge, a new joint venture music service between Viacom and Microsoft. .
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