Microsoft Corp said on Friday that it will not attend the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2022 in Las Vegas in person, with Omicron opting not to have a physical presence at next month’s event over concerns over the rapid spread of COVID-19. will be included in the list of companies. -19 variants.
According to an emailed statement, the US software giant said that it will continue to attend CES remotely. The Verge first reported on Friday that Microsoft would not be attending CES physically.
US automaker General Motors Co., Alphabet Inc.’s Google and its self-driving auto-technology company Waymo, Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc., Twitter Inc., Lenovo Group, AT&T Inc. and Amazon.com Inc., among many others, were dropped individually. . Attendance plan earlier this week.
CES officials said on Thursday that the event will still be held on January 5-8 with “robust safeguards” in place, including vaccination requirements, masking and the availability of COVID-19 tests.
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