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CeBIT Global Conference Remarks by Microsoft Chief Operating Officer Kevin Turner Hannover, Germany March 4, 2010
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With opening ceremonies of the 2010 Winter Olympic Games scheduled for Friday, Microsoft Silverlight, MSN and Bing teams have worked with NBCOlympics.com to deliver 2010 Winter Games to the online audience. Silverlight, a cross-browser, cross-platform Web plug-in, and Internet Information Services Smooth Streaming technology, will power the interactive online player on NBCOlympics.com. Features include:
You can check out the Silverlight-powered video experience now on NBCOlympics.com now, with more content to come as the 2010 Winter Games get started next week.
Watch video of Steve Ballmer and Robbie Bach delivering the opening keynote address for CES 2010.
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Some 110,000 gadget-lovers are descending on this city for the 2010 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) – the world’s largest consumer electronics trade show.
Production Supervisor Terry Higgs tests the interactive lighting at the Microsoft CES booth. “We take weeks and essentially construct a building from scratch. Three days after the show ends, it’s nothing but bare concrete.”
The four-day show officially kicks off tonight, when Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer takes the stage at the Las Vegas Hilton to deliver his keynote speech. Last year, Ballmer assumed the role from Bill Gates, who had traditionally opened the show.
Last year’s show was beset with gloom as the U.S. economy seemed to be in free-fall. Attendees this year can take heart that the just-finished holiday shopping season saw surprisingly strong numbers.
Revenue from U.S. electronics sales between November 1 and December 24 rose 5.9 percent over the same period in 2008, estimates MasterCard Advisors' SpendingPulse, which tracks all forms of payment. CES-bound manufacturers hope consumers extend their holiday shopping season into the new year and buy some of the toys on display at the show, including TVs with 3-D displays, wafer-thin laptops, and a new generation of e-book readers.
But before the show begins, an incredible amount of work is underway to make sure the booths that will showcase all that technology are ready for attendees to arrive. As of Tuesday afternoon, thousands of workers were still swarming over the show’s estimated 2,500 exhibits. Like many others, Microsoft’s booth looked like it was far from ready for prime time.
“Twenty-four hours before a skyscraper opens, you still have guys painting the walls and pounding nails,” said Terry Higgs, production supervisor of Microsoft’s CES booth. “Then, 12 hours before the opening, the boxes go away, stuff disappears, and you’re in a brand-new building.”
At the last minute, the booth will be ready, predicted Higgs. “I feel confident,” he said. “We’re in really good shape.”
As Higgs spoke, all around him determined crews were drilling, hammering, and laying carpet. Forklifts whizzed by. Some 75 crew members were at work on the Microsoft booth, which will be a focal point for the media, partners, and interested consumers. With all that attention, nothing is left to chance, Higgs said.
Higgs has been in Vegas since Dec. 21, overseeing work on Microsoft’s 16,000 square feet of space from the moment when crews started laying cables and carpet.
Nearby, Paul John Liszweski, audiovisual and broadcast lead for the Microsoft team, put the finishing touches on what has been a five-month marathon to get the booth ready to showcase the company’s product groups including Microsoft Office, Windows and Surface. “I try to make their dreams come true in this little world,” he said.
Beth Honebrink, experiential technical manager, shows off a bass guitar from Beatles: Rock Band Limited Edition Premium Bundle that will be on display at Microsoft's CES booth.
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Once each group decided on a vision for its booth space, it fell to Liszweski to figure out how to wire it for sight and sound. A couple thousand feet of fiber optics cable later, the booth was nearly ready.
Along the way, Liszweski discovered he has another crucial duty once CES starts: DJ, spinning tunes in the media lounge.
What type of music will he play?
“Not techno lounge, not Sarah McLachlan,” he said. “It’s got to be chill – stuff I’d want playing while I had a cocktail with some friends. Maybe I’ll open with Snow Patrol.”
Colleague Beth Honebrink, an experiential technical manager, walked by carrying the bass guitar from “Beatles: Rock Band Limited Edition Premium Bundle.” If Liszweski was considering adding the Fab Four to his playlist, he doesn’t mention it.
Later, after the show ends, the crew will spend another few days stripping away the glitz and glamor. “It’s amazing to think about,” Higgs said. “We take weeks and essentially construct a building from scratch. Three days after the show ends, it’s nothing but bare concrete.”
Steve Ballmer, chief executive officer of Microsoft, and Robbie Bach, president of the Entertainment & Devices Division, deliver the pre-show keynote address in Las Vegas to kick off the 2010 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES). Coverage begins on Jan. 6, 2010, at approximately 6:30 p.m. PST with the live, streaming keynote. The Microsoft 2010 CES Newsroom will be updated throughout CES with the latest news, videos, photos and press information from Microsoft and its partners.
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/events/ces/
I'm at HP headquaters in Houston together with a group of bloggers. Yesterday we attended presentations on the new G6 HP Proliant server line. Great stuff! The cool thing is these sessions were recorded and you can view these sessions right now and chat with us if you have any questions.
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LAS VEGAS — March 18, 2009 — Today at MIX09, Microsoft Corp. announced a set of platform investments to help companies more efficiently and affordably engage with their customers through a rich, interactive presence on the Web. This includes the release of Microsoft Silverlight 3 Beta and Expression Blend 3 Preview, and continued progress in the cloud with updates to the Azure Services Platform. The company also pointed to strong momentum in platform adoption and demonstrated a number of solutions from key partners including Netflix Inc., Bondi Digital Publishing, StackOverflow.com and KEXP. In addition, building on the success of Silverlight during the Beijing Games, NBC Universal has again chosen Silverlight to deliver the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Winter Games on its official Web site, NBCOlympics.com.
The Business Imperative of a Return on Experience
Organizations that create more intuitive, more engaging experiences on the Web are able to reduce costs and increase sales. Their visitors find the information they want faster, their customers make fewer calls to support help desks, and the number of impulse purchases made by customers generated grows dramatically. The integrated and interoperable offerings from Microsoft, composed of software and services for desktop, datacenters and the cloud, help organizations deliver richer, more compelling experiences that they require both in and out of the browser, and give them enhanced “return on experience” that the current economic climate demands.
Silverlight 3 Beta Released
Silverlight 3 empowers Web developers and designers to build the best experiences for their customers through the creation of cutting-edge Web applications. Silverlight 3 helps rich Internet application (RIA) developers work faster with new graphics, animation and 3-D features, and more than 60 controls. Silverlight 3 also ushers in a new generation of high-quality and high-definition video experiences with true high-definition video in full-screen mode, with stutter-free live and on-demand video. Silverlight 3 also gives users more video format choices than ever before, including H.264, along with enhancements such as deep linking, to improve navigation in Silverlight content and automate search engine optimization (SEO) tasks. Finally, Silverlight 3 enables developers to create lightweight Web application experiences that can exist outside the browser. This enables Web sites to deliver more persistent relationships with their customers.
Microsoft also announced Expression Blend 3 Preview, designed to dramatically improve designer and developer workflow and productivity. In the MIX09 keynote address, Microsoft demonstrated SketchFlow, a new capability that allows designers to quickly prototype the flow and composition of applications. Now, for the first time, designers can easily receive annotated feedback on prototypes from stakeholders and rapidly iterate on a project from concept to completion. In addition, Expression Blend directly supports the import of Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator files (including layers and paths), integration of live preview sample data, and a comprehensive set of rich behaviors.
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Bill LaingCorporate Vice PresidentWindows Server Division, Microsoft Corporation Thursday, November 6, 9:30am, South Hall
Bill Laing will discuss Windows Server and power efficient computing for global enterprises, new industry trends around virtualization and scaling to support multi-core processor architectures, and Microsoft's key investments in the area of "Work Anywhere Infrastructure."
Steven SinofskySenior Vice PresidentWindows and Windows Live Engineering Group, Microsoft CorporationandJon DeVaanSenior Vice PresidentWindows Core Operating System Division, Microsoft CorporationWednesday, November 5, 9:00 am PST
Can't wait to get a look at Windows 7 and discover what it means for the hardware ecosystem? On day 1 of WinHEC 2008, the waiting is over. Microsoft senior vice presidents Steven Sinofsky and Jon DeVaan will introduce Windows 7 and show you what it can do, from advancements in core components and architecture to improvements in user interface, device support, graphics, media, and more.
Join Microsoft Technical Fellow Mark Russinovich for this keynote as he shares his thoughts on the state of IT computing and tommorrow’s trends, and how Microsoft is helping to transform the traditional desktop and datacenter. Russinovich will discuss directions for Microsoft’s virtualization and management technologies, and the related applications and infrastructure that will make IT stronger, leaner, and more strategic. He'll demo yet-to-be released products so that you can see what Microsoft is developing. Learn how you can implement Microsoft's solutions today to achieve consolidation, business continuity, accelerated desktop deployments, as well as where Microsoft is headed.
Video: Listen to Mark talk about his talk at Vitualization Congress 2008.
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· Visual Studio 2008 extensions for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 v1.2 – this allows developers to use Visual Studio 2008 to extend the value of Windows SharePoint Services and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server by providing a simplified development environment.
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The wait is over! The public PDC2008 site just went live, and you can now register for the conference (and save $200 if you register early). We've published a preliminary set of topics that represents only a fraction of the over 160 sessions you'll see at the event. Topics include software + services, Windows 7, a deep dive on Silverlight graphics pipelines, Windows Mobile, extensible BitmapEffects and Pixel Shaders in WPF, how we use Team Foundation Server for our huge Microsoft projects, a new technology that makes it easy to build business applications in Silverlight, how to develop for Live Mesh, and more. It's brain busting content at its best.
For $400 more, I'd encourage you to show up a day early and attend one of our pre-conference sessions. These are all-day-long, deep-dives on today's technology delivered by both Microsoft and recognized third-party experts. For example, Advanced Windows Debugging will be presented by Mario Hewardt and Daniel Pravat, the guys who wrote the excellent book by the same name. Some of my other favorites are Concurrent, Multi-core Programming on Windows and .NET, Performance by design using the .NET Framework, and who could resist the urge to go under the covers with Charles Petzold for WPF Code and Concepts.
Madonna’s exclusive performance at New York City’s famed Roseland Ballroom will be available live to millions of fans via an online broadcast at http://music.msn.com/madonna, it was confirmed today by MSN and Control Room, which announced that the show will stream live Wednesday evening, April 30, at 10 p.m. EDT in the United States and will be available on demand to international audiences on May 15. Along with some past hits, Madonna will be debuting several new songs including her 37th No. 1 smash single “Four Minutes” from her upcoming CD Hard Candy, which is scheduled to be released on April 28. The Control Room-produced show will also include never-before-seen rehearsal footage, a pre-recorded interview with Madonna and her full performance, giving fans around the globe unprecedented access to one of the biggest music events of 2008 by simply logging on to MSN Music In Concert.
“Madonna is a legendary performer, and we’re thrilled to be bringing this live online broadcast to her fans on the heels of her Hall of Fame induction, her record-breaking 37th top-10 single ‘4 Minutes,’ and in conjunction with the launch of this hotly anticipated new album,” said Aaron Grosky, Control Room president. “As experts in bringing live music performances to the Web, Control Room will deliver Madonna fans an online experience that captures the excitement and authenticity of this exclusive show.”
Control Room, the leading producer and distributor of world-class entertainment content, delivers nearly 40 live music shows per year to the MSN Music In Concert series. Past performances have included international superstars such as Rihanna, Jay-Z, Lenny Kravitz, Sheryl Crow and many more. Coming in May, fans can watch performances by Jack Johnson and Daughtry. The Music In Concert series (http://music.msn.com/inconcert), which is available in 42 countries and 21 languages through the international MSN network, gives music fans worldwide the chance to see live music performances from their favorite artists.
“MSN Music In Concert is one way we are bringing together the best and most compelling entertainment content on the Web,” said Rob Bennett, general manager, entertainment, video and sports, MSN. “Madonna has a huge international following, and we are very excited that we’re able to offer the exclusive webcast of her concert to her fans around the world.”