Microsoft to make CES 2012 its last amid claims of a falling out

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Claiming that the timing of the event meshes poorly with the company's product launches, Microsoft Corporate Vice President of Corporate Communications Frank X. Shaw announced on Tuesday that after CES 2012, Microsoft would no longer deliver a keynote address or have a large booth at the annual trade fair. CES's organizers, the Consumer Electronics Association, confirmed that the 2012 keynote would be Microsoft's fourteenth and last.

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