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Imagine Cup contestants video[/caption]
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Imagine Cup contestants video[/caption]
- Report card on Microsoft
- Microsoft trying to drive forward the platform for intelligent devices..
- He’s going through the list of Microsoft products..
- Last 12 months was “phenomenal for us”
- “Consistently through the last 3 quarters , we have delivered double digit growth rates in Office and Server product lines..”
- Interest in kinect is very high
- Windows Server 76% marketshare
- Sounds like Steve is trying to justify his job…
- Office and Office 365 “The other guys have yet to show up”
- Windows – “350 million new pc’s sold”
- A little dig at Apple ” the other guys in the 20 million range”
- Bing is the Microsoft product our partners spend the least amount of time on
- Market share in US grew to 14.1%, 30% growth
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Bing growth[/caption]
Bing growth[/caption]
- Â With Bing, people dont want to search, they want to decide and take action
- Demo of Bing with Stefan Weitz
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Bing Stefan Weitz[/caption]
Bing Stefan Weitz[/caption]
- ” I like Mango better than Apple” – funny
- Talking about “bringing your friends with you” and gives a bullshit Hawaii example.
- Bing trying to integrate associate services like OpenTable with search results so that you could go directly to make a reservation once you find a restaurant.
- Using example of getting Dodgers tickets for a baseball game and buying the tickets from the search results
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Bing Maps example[/caption]
Bing Maps example[/caption]
- Powerful example about using Bing to find a competitive parking space.. very cool
- Windows Server and Azure discussion now
- Coherent and complete Public/Private Cloud story
- Azure customers
- Boeing – Application to market one of their planes – the 737. Boeing customers love it.
- American Airlines – Livetile on Windows Phone app. “The fastest delivery of flight information data on the planet”
- Dynamics 10 years of business applications space..
- “We are all in when it comes to Business Applications”.
- Barclay’s Bank left Oracle to come to Microsoft
- SpaceX is using Dynamics AX
- Dynamics NAV next year will put Microsoft ERP in the cloud
- 2012 Dynamics NAv will be cloud based
- Over 100 million new Office licenses
- Â 50,000 businesses have used Office 365 trials
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Office 365[/caption]
Office 365[/caption]
- Office 365 rah rah…
- Excited about Skype – have to be careful – regulatory approval
- Wants to be able to connect Enterprises but allow Enterprises to connect to those outside the Enterprise as well..
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Skype, Lync[/caption]
Xbox demo[/caption]
XBOX Bing Integration[/caption]
Steve is wrapping up…
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Steve Ballmer signs out of WPC 2011[/caption]
The end.
Skype, Lync[/caption]
- XBOX time
- New games coming
- More music, movies and LIVE TV
- Voice control xbox via Kinect
- Hes gonna show a demo
- No buttons
- He basically ramroded Elenas demo
- You say it and Xbox finds it
Xbox demo[/caption]
- Â This is cool
- Bing + Kinect + Voice = cool experience
XBOX Bing Integration[/caption]
- You say it and Xbox will find it
- Live TV will come to Xbox
- Xbox and Bing this holiday season – This will be VERY strong
- Windows Phone
- 9 out of 10 Windows Phone users recommend it – yeah right
- Nokia is going with Windows Phone for their “Bet the Company” strategy
- Quotes the Gartner and IDC bullshit predictions
- Talks Mango
Windows 8
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Tami Reller[/caption]
Tami Reller[/caption]
- Here it comes
- Tami  Reller is doing the demo
- She will share Windows 7 opportunities and do a “recap” on Windows 8?
- Recap? What the hell..
- She says 400 million copies sold of Windows 7
- Windows 7 is great rah rah
- Windows 7 saves you money rah rah
- Windows 7 is secure rah rah
- Windows 7 virtualization rah rah
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Pin-Taskbar Preview-Jumplists-Snap-BitLocker-Remote Desktop[/caption]
Pin-Taskbar Preview-Jumplists-Snap-BitLocker-Remote Desktop[/caption]
- Adoption highest of any OS in history
- 2/3rds of business PC’s are still on XP
- 300 million desktops need to be migrated to Windows 7/8
- Windows 7 is the best OS for the Cloud? Then what about Windows 8? the confusion begins.
- Windows 7 is the path to the future..
- Here comes Windows 8.
- Booooriiiing
- doing a recap
- runs on x86, ARM etc
- Over the last month, many have reached out to know more
- new video
- going over the same BS we have seen before
- Tiles, start screen
- Apps take up the whole screen
- Basically showing the same video that Julie Larson Green talked about
- Windows 8 is an upgrade for an entire ecosystem of PC’s
- Windows 8 will adapt to make the best of your hardware – interesting
- Windows 8 will be able to use Windows 7 hardware
- W??? They see a future where Windows 8 and Windows 7 will be side by side so customers can be more confident?? WTH??
- The path to Windows 8 starts with Windows 7???
- This is a clusterf*ck message…
- She just left…she said absolutely nothing
BOOOOOO No Windows 8 News here
Steve Ballmer signs out of WPC 2011[/caption]
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Featured · live coverage · Miscellaneous · Steve Ballmer · Windows 8 · World Wide Partner Conference · WPC 2011
