I was bored so I watched the Microsoft Keynote that opened CES last night. Nothing groundbreaking from the software giant but here are some cool takeaways from that:

• Windows 7 public beta on Friday.
• 17 Million Xbox Live Subscribers with 3 million new accounts over the last 3 months.
• Xbox accounted for over 80% of all downloaded songs for Guitar Hero/Rock Band.
• Halo Wars comes out Feb 28th with a demo on Feb 5th.
• Xbox will release a game creation playground called Kodu.