Hasta La Gadget!

CES 2011 will kick off in style tonight with a keynote from Microsoft head Steve Ballmer. The press conference is customarily one of the biggest events of the entire show. As we have for the past couple of years, Gearlog will be on hand at the show, covering the event live.

So, what do we have to look forward to at the show? Well, if larger trends are any indication, there will be plenty of Windows 7 tablets to show off–hopefully they’ll fare better than that long awaited HP tablet that never surfaced after the buzz of last year’s show.

Ballmer will no doubt be talking up Windows Phone 7. As of late, the company’s new mobile operating system has been posting some fairly respectable numbers. Also, what about that operating system for ARM that we’ve been hearing a good deal about lately?

And Windows 8? Maybe a preview of a forthcoming operating system, though that seems like a bit of wishful thinking.

Whatever the case may be, we will be there, tonight at 6:30 PT/9:30 ET.