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Microsoft's vision for the home
Created: 10/30/2007
Video description: At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Microsoft's Bill Gates and Steven Guggenheimer show Microsoft's vision of the smart home, which includes SPOT, the Media Center PC and MSN 8.

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