Live Blog: Ballmer speaks at WPC 2011 (updated)

Imagine Cup contestants video

• 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

Bing growth

•  With Bing, people dont want to search, they want to decide and take action
• Demo of Bing with Stefan Weitz

Bing Stefan Weitz

• " 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

Bing Maps example

• 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
•  50,000 businesses have used Office 365 trials

Office 365

• 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..

Skype, Lync

• 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

•  This is cool
• Bing + Kinect + Voice = cool experience

XBOX Bing Integration

• 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

Tami Reller

• 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

Pin-Taskbar Preview-Jumplists-Snap-BitLocker-Remote Desktop

• 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 is wrapping up...

Steve Ballmer signs out of WPC 2011

The end.

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