Today’s the big coming-out party for Windows Phone 7, with a gigantic Microsoft event starring Steve Ballmer. We’re here live, and you can watch it live too. Update: It’s official, Windows Phone 7 launches on November 8.
Two years on from taking over Old Billy Gates’s role, and Steve Ballmer’s not doing too badly. WP7 has got people excited, and Windows 7 is actually being used. Yet, he got half the usual bonus last year.
Asked by analysts about the three million magical iPads sold in 80 days, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer wasn’t very happy. They only sold 1.32 million Tablet PCs in 2008, 1.25 million estimated for 2010, so I’m not surprised. [Techflash]
First, Microsoft’s tablet hopes and dreams hinged on the HP Slate. That died. At least there were still rumours of the Courier dual-screen tablet! Until, well. But according to Microsoft honcho Steve Ballmer, there are Windows 7 tablets aplenty coming.
The first details of Microsoft’s dual-screen Courier tablet sent everyone into a tizzy. Then Microsoft proclaimed Courier dead before ever officially acknowledging its existence. But wait: is this email from CEO Steve Ballmer reason enough to hope for Courier’s future?
Today at the All Things D conference we saw a snapshot of what’s wrong with Microsoft under Steve Ballmer’s tenure.
The question implicit here would have meant something completely different five years ago. But things are changing: computers are shrinking; tablets are knocking; the clouds are forming. The PC will thrive, says Ballmer, because PCs encompass all of this. [Bits]
Steve Ballmer took his turn in the hot seat today at D8, and anybody hoping for a few candid spitballs from Microsoft’s quotable CEO wasn’t disappointed. Ballmer had plenty to say about everyone’s faults – starting with his own company’s:
