Betanews CES 2009 Contest: Win Vista Ultimate and Office 2007

Before CES 2008, Betanews debuted our "Better Questions" contest, where we asked you, the reader, what questions you wanted answered from the CES floor. This year, we're asking you again.

Our correspondents will be out in force all next week, meeting with the companies, executives, and business leaders whose decisions directly impact the consumer electronics industry -- which is experiencing as much volatility now than at any time in its history. We're already asking some of the big questions, in our ongoing CES 13 Countdown series. But we've heard from some of you that you might have better questions of your own.

Okay. Prove it.

In the comment field below, submit no more than three questions you'd most like to be answered. Make each of them probing, innovative, unusual, well-considered, and something that you'd want one of our team to ask a real company or executive at CES. Each question should be directed to a specific company, or the maker of a particular product.

For example, one the winners pulled from the over 300 entries last year asked: "Samsung, your 73-inch LED DLP is killer and the price is very competitive over Plasma and LCD. Are you going to abandon your customers and drop DLP's as Sony has decided to do?"

The top three sets of questions will receive a prize package from the folks at Microsoft:

• First prize: Windows Vista Ultimate and Gears of War 2 for Xbox 360
• Second prize:Windows Vista Ultimate
• Third prize:Office Standard 2007, along with an autographed 8 x 10 of Scott M. Fulton III, suitable for framing (not to mention target practice)