Microsoft will give speeches Tuesday morning about cloud computing, Office and Windows Phones during a Worldwide Partners Conference in Los Angeles.
Division presidents Satya Nadella (Server and Tools), Kurt DelBene (Business division) and Andy Lees (mobile business) will give keynote speeches commencement during 9 a.m.
You can watch a live webcast during www.digitalwpc.com and we will be live blogging it here.
9:09 a.m. we am watchful for a WPC webcast to begin.
9:12 a.m. WPC starts with Bach’s Cello Suite in G vital achieved live on stage. (Cello Suite No. 1.)
9:13 a.m. Here are links to a coverage of Steve Ballmer’s speech on Monday, new that a new chronicle Windows Intune is available for giveaway beta contrast and a new Microsoft partnership with Yell in a UK.
9:16 a.m. Microsoft showed a video about a device that helps debate marred people communicate. Now a lady is singing Coldplay’s “Viva La Vida” with a electric cellist.
9:19 a.m. Microsoft Corporate Vice President Jon Roskill on stage. He pronounced a cellist was Tina Guo. Here is Tina Guo’s website.
9:26 a.m. The mayor has admitted it Microsoft partner day in Los Angeles, Roskill said. Now there’s a catwalk of important partners parading opposite a stage.
9:27 a.m. Summer conform news from WPC stage: grey suits, symbol down shirts, tip symbol open, no ties. Women wearing flats.
9:35 a.m. Satya Nadella, boss of Microsoft’s Server and Tools division, now on stage. Here is an progressing story on Satya Nadella we ran when he was promoted. He replaces former multiplication boss Bob Muglia, who spoke final year.
9:42 a.m. Nadella said, “The fact that virtualization is reaching an rhythm indicate is not mislaid on us.”
9:43 a.m. Nadella is now articulate System Center 2012. He said, “The pivotal pattern pillars of this subsequent recover is to make certain it’s all about a app.” That sounds a lot like how Microsoft is articulate about a Web browser and Internet Explorer — it’s all about a website.
9:50 a.m. Nadella says information is exploding, though 72 percent of people in a association do not have entrance to a business comprehension to modify a information into insight. He pronounced subsequent chronicle of SQL Server is being designed with that in mind.
9:56 a.m. A village record preview of a entrance chronicle of Server called Denali is accessible Tuesday. Here is where we can get a SQL Server Denali preview. It includes a information cognisance demo shown Tuesday called Project Crescent.
10:02 a.m. Nadella showed video of a Boeing selling focus for a 737 built on Microsoft’s cloud height Azure.
10:03 a.m. Kurt DelBene, boss of Microsoft Business multiplication is now on stage. DelBene is also new from final year, when former boss Stephen Elop spoke. Elop left Microsoft to turn CEO of Nokia. Here is a Seattle Times QandA with DelBene about Office and Office 365.
10:07 a.m. Office is on one billion PCs, DelBene said.
10:09 a.m. DelBene on Office in a cloud, Office 365, and a impact on Google Apps. “It’s a cloud on your terms. It’s not about holding a consumer oriented cloud knowledge and observant that’s good adequate for enterprise.”
10:13 a.m. DelBene now articulate about Microsoft’s one communications program Lync, that provides voice calling, video calling, discussion job and present messaging. “We’ve got over 10 million Cisco bequest voice over IP lines that are going out of support subsequent year,” he said. “We’ve got 150 million bequest lines that will be converted by a business over a subsequent 3 years.” Lync program can transposed normal phone systems.
10:14 a.m. Now display a demo of Lync and how it translates messages during present messaging. Lync is a product that Skype will be integrated into if Microsoft receives regulatory capitulation to buy Skype.
10:18 a.m. Lync is entrance to “major mobile platforms” by finish of a year, that presumes Android and iPhone. Demo on Windows Phone showed present messaging. It’s not transparent from demo either it will do voice or video calls.
10:21 a.m. DelBene says 50,000 people have attempted out Office 365 given Jun 28 launch. Lots of waffling numbers during WPC speeches. On Monday, Ballmer pronounced 56,000 have attempted it given launch.
Another waffling series during WPC: Ballmer pronounced 350 million new PCs are on Windows 7 on Monday morning. An hour later, Windows selling exec Tami Reller pronounced 400 million.
10:32 a.m. DelBene off. Kirill Tatarinov, boss of Microsoft’s Dynamics business is on stage. Dynamics is Microsoft’s patron family management, also famous as CRM, and craving apparatus formulation software, also famous as ERP.
10:37 a.m. Two million people are regulating Microsoft Dynamics CRM, Tatarinov said. That’s how many people possess Windows Phones.
10:40 a.m. It’s really newbies day on a WPC stage. All a multiplication presidents vocalization Tuesday — Nadella, DelBene, Tatarinov, Lees, including Roskill — were promoted in past year.
10:48 a.m. Microsoft showed a demo of Dynamics CRM program regulating with Windows Azure and Office 365 in a cloud.
10:58 a.m. Tatarinov done. Andy Lees, boss of a Windows Phone division, now on theatre articulate about devices.
11:01 a.m. The cost to make a phone has depressed dramatically. “A year ago all smartphones cost $400 when they left their manufacturer. Today they’re down to $200,” Lees said. “And subsequent year a phone that can run Windows Phone 7 will cost $100 to $150.”
11:02 a.m. Lees concedes a CES demo by Windows multiplication boss Steve Sinofsky of Windows regulating on a motherboard was “boring.” He added, “We’re during an rhythm indicate in Moore’s law where we can put all we need to run a mechanism on a chip, a complement on a chip. You can have full PC energy in whatever form cause we like.” Here is a couple to a story on a Windows complement on a chip CES demo in January.
11:05 a.m. When people ask either Microsoft is going to put Windows Phone on a tablet, Lees said, “This is in dispute with this strategy. We perspective a inscription as a PC.” He pronounced people wish to do PC things on a inscription like copy and networking. He also adds, “We are aiming to yield conformity and coherence between a PC, a phone and a TV by Xbox.”
11:10 a.m. Microsoft is display a demo of a Mango refurbish for Windows Phone entrance after this year. Seems like a repeat of a company’s proclamation in May in New York. We went to that. Here is a Seattle Times story on Mango underline breakdown.
11:19 a.m. It’s not a totally verbatim repeat of a May Windows Phone news event. we consider they switched out a Miley Cyrus book for a Justin Bieber book to denote a Bing picture hunt feature.
11:22 a.m. Windows Phone has 22,000 applications. Lees pronounced it’s a fastest expansion for any new mobile platform, and it’s some-more applications than RIM has for a Blackberry.
11:24 a.m. Microsoft and a wireless carriers will cut Windows Phone prices in half this year, Lees said.
11:29 a.m. Ford has done 3 million cars regulating Windows Embedded program in Sync.
11:34 a.m. Microsoft is display several inclination regulating Windows.
11:43 a.m. Keynote is over. Coming Wednesday during 9 a.m.: Chief Operating Officer Kevin Turner and UK business noble Richard Branson. We’ll be live blogging here during Microsoft Pri0.
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