Microsoft boss Steve Ballmer is in New York today to do a webcast event:
Before a gathering of hundreds of business customers in New York, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer outlines the company's vision for how software helps enable people to drive the modern business. Called "People Ready," this business vision is the foundation for a series of new solutions in new and existing categories that Microsoft will bring to market later this year.
No idea what it means, but Microsoft thinks it's important as we got a couple of invitations to go (and our man in New York might have gone if he wasn't in Houston). We already have Vista and Office 12 betas, so maybe it's the new Desktop Deployment features being added to the Software Assurance scam^h^h^h scheme ... but that sounds unlikely. Windows for SUVs? Anyone been prebriefed?
Update: Ballmer is speaking now.... about "empowering people through software". Sounds familiar.... Chris Caposella is doing a 20-minute demo of Microsoft Office technology (including presence information) and Groove.... Tommy Hilfiger introduces his CIO, Eric Singleton.... (Ballmer is wearing a Hilfiger tie.) Chris Caposella starts a demo of business intelligence.... Tim Huval, CIO of Bank of America... also wants a Hilfiger tie. Ballmer says: "People people people." It's over. Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.
I hope not too many people had to get out of bed for that. On the good side, they could easily have slept through it.
