Stuff From Microsoft’s Financial Analyst Meeting
Several bits out of Microsoft’s Financial Analyst Meeting, being held today in Redmond:
- Steve Ballmer is talking about the “Windows Live Cloud Infrastructure”, which divides Live into four groups: Personal services, like the Windows Live sites, Office Live, search; Developer services, like the Cloud, Silverlight Streaming, BizTalk Services; Business services, like hosted Exchange, Office Live Small Business, CRM Live and the Titan development platform; Service enablers, like Windows Server, SQL Server, Visual Studio, adCenter, ActiveX, Ajax, Silverlight, .Net and Win32 Softgrid.
- Microsoft claims that over the next year, the number of PCs running Windows will top 1 billion for the first time, exceeding the number of cars out there.
- Also, Microsoft is rolling out some important releases today and tomorrow, including the release candidate of Silverlight 1.0, a CTP of Silverlight 1.1, a preview of Expression Blend 2.0, a public beta 2 of Visual Studio 2008, and early test builds of Rosario, the version of Visual Studio Team that comes after Orcas. Not sure if this was covered at the financial meeting, but important nonetheless.
