UPDATED 15:38 PM EST, January 11, 2013
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Microsoft may have relinquished its starring role in America's gaudiest gadget show a year too early.
After 13 straight years in the spotlight, Microsoft's decision to scale back its presence at the International CES deprived the software maker of a prime opportunity to explain and promote a new generation of redesigned computers running its radically remade Windows operating system.
