The 2011 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas certainly a lot of highlights to it, and SiliconANGLE was there to cover it all. From Microsoft to Android to online video, this CES round-up brings together everything we covered, discussed and commented on during this year’s show.

Jump-starting our CES round-up is Microsoft, who managed to surpass its disappointing Windows 7 presentation from last year with some very notable product presentations, which we covered extensively. There was Microsoft’s presentation of IE9 and Microsoft Surface 2 as well as Windows Phone 7 1.0, an announcement of future Intel “Sandy Bridge” and AMD “Fusion APU” technology-running devices to come, the Avatar Kinect and more.

“It could be genuinely felt that the achievements stood on their own, perhaps amazed by their own work, Microsoft delivered one of the most memorable keynotes in recent memory. For the first time in a long time I can see Microsoft’s vision. This is a big win, Windows lives in a big way.”

Another highlight of CES deserving a mention is the mobile sector. Smartphones and tablets took the podium and provided some outlook on where mobile tech may head to in the near future.

SiliconANGLE was there at the CES AT&T developer conference, where 20 new 4G devices were announced for 2010. Additionally, we covered HTC’s announcement of two additional 4G devices at CES, as well as the rise of the tablet devices, including a Samsung device which folds into a tablet, the show-stopping Motorola XOOM, the LG T-Mobile G-Slate and the 12.1 Inch Asus Tablet PC, to name a few.

“If there’s an underlying theme here from a device standpoint, it’s Android, Android, Android. Ralph de la Vega called up senior execs from Motorola, HTC, and Samsung to introduce new handsets–which, tellingly, all run Android…”

This is, among other reasons, why Android also receives a special highlight in this round-up. Google’s contribution to the front against Apple’s iOS is now a rapidly expanding titan, which made its marks at CES.

We covered the launch of the ultra-slim Android 2.3 running Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc – one of the slimmest Androids to date – as well as the preview of Android 3.0 dubbed Honeycomb. Motorola’s own dual-core 1 gigahertz processor, 10.1 inch Verizon LTE XOOM tablet will run on Honeycomb as well as LG’s G-Slate, but the more than dozen new Android devices at CES are not the only new products expecting Android users further down the road.

Samsung also announced that Hulu Plus is coming to its Android-running Samsung Tab and TVs, as well as content streaming options from Adobe, Comcast and Time Warner. During CES chip designer MIPS also revealed the SmartCE platform which integrates Android, Adobe Flash platform for TV, Skype, Home Jinni ConnecTV and more to run smoothly on TV platforms, set-top boxes and Blu-ray players.

“Include the addition of Android software and consumers will be thrust also into the vast ecology of the Android marketplace when they’re looking for extending their ability to control their television watching habits.”

TV and video were big at CES, too. In addition to MIPS, there was Skype’s announcement of the Group Video Calling feature, Cisco’s announcement of the very promising cloud Videoscape TV platform and LG’s Smart TV platform. With features like in-video e-commerce, social networking and group calling, it’s evident that TV platforms and video are big, or are at least a market worth tapping into.

SiliconANGLE was there at the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show and covered it all – from browsers to Cisco.What’s your most exciting takeaway from CES this year?