I ’ll be filtering for interesting gadget news . Mossy wore the risible hat today . And Ballmer is on fire with the outlandishness .
8:14 Mossberg and Swisher take the stage , after some WSJ intro by the former and current managing editor in chief
and their ( not ) resister later tonight …
8:17 : Showing a TV of the “ dark side of D ”
8:26Jill Sobuleon leg playing a few songs … D is like Mossberg ’s US Festival ( google Woz ) .
10:33 4 out of 30 of the original MSFT people are enceinte . Mossberg takes a shot at Paul Allen , enjoin he is n’t unspoilt . Crowd laughs .
10:35 lease ’s talk about Vista , for some understanding , it ’s taken five twelvemonth to get it out . You ’ve said you ’ll never take that long again . How ?
antimony : We have to learn from our mistakes , we ’ve got the will , the conclusion , we tried to do too much incubation into a new tech , and make it subordinate on itself , and exponentially increased the complexness of the project .
8:37 WM : What ’s the schedule , 2.5 class ?
atomic number 51 : Windows Live will get into a predictable rhythm , and some stuff will be libertine [ whatever that means ]
WM : Some of Windows Live seems to be rebranding , some of it is young . I thought Virtual Earth was a respectable name than the young one . Is there anything in common to all the Modern ware other than the name Windows ?
SB : Windows hot software grade by frequent updates . Some of the eco system , we have n’t move as quick as we like . We care to state it first , and then go there as quickly as we can [ contrary to Apple of old ]
8:40 : antimony : utter a lot of frippery , but basically tell some will , some wo n’t .
WM : talk about software , and unexampled business models . Advertising .
SB : We ’re coming and coming . Microsoft ’s alone thing is that we ’re trying to have multiple brawniness .
WM : One ca n’t aid but remark that you have to do that , if you ’re going to contend with Apple , Google , etc . Building a manufacturing plant to build Zunes ?
SB : No , it was just a subcontractor , everything is subcontracted . computer hardware is only a method of delivering services .
WM : But hardware is a part of that normal .
BS : Yes .
WM : And you have the market cornered on dark-brown gadgets .
SB : Yes , high grocery share , too . It ’s what Dirt Bike Riders want ! ( giggle )
SB : We ’re set out stuff and nonsense at DEMO
WM : This is D.You have to compensate to show your stuff at DEMO .
unveil the Suface table
WM : This is real , right ? Because someone [ hp ] unveiled something like this and never sold it .
MSFT : Multitouch …
WM : I thought another party had that tech ?
MSFT : This is massive multitouch
MSFT : Inside , 5 cameras , and a DLP system .
WM : How long does it take to boot up ? Crowd laughs .
MSFT : It ’s always on .
[ updated timestamps to the right time . ]
MSFT : easily , and there wo n’t require to be a Dummies Christian Bible .
WM : But there will be
MSFT : Can discover devices , so it can take RFID and pick out people .
They ’re dragging multliple photos at once . And drag videos while run .
8:56 Showing reflexive wireless sync with the mesa . They put the camera on the table , and photo flow out from it on to the Surface table .
8:57 Walt does a Caesars Palace scratch posting . big , maybe he can win enough cash to buy the table . ( Microsoft keeps talking about the consumer , but is n’t this for business ? )
8:57 WM : Can this be bigger ?
MSFT : Yes , we found that 30 in is idealistic , but it will scale . We will have thin versions , paintings that you may hang on the wall .
SB : pedagogue are interested .
WM : The highest habit is n’t to lose money in casinos ? ( WM is rum this morning . )
WM : T - Mobile … can this gadget make T - Mobile not terrible ?
Can you see an exec enunciate “ Why not make it not horrific ? ”
MSFT showing T - Mobile demo with the telephone , for in - memory board equivalence .
8:59 WM : Now these have declamatory sword cables confiscate to the phones , right ?
MSFT mumble
BS : Mockingly repeat WM , in jest . [ Three stooges up there ]
Sheraton music app being shown .
WM : Because when you think “ Sheraton , ” you think Music , yea ?
WM Wait , I ca n’t change the waiting line of call ? !
MSFT Sorry . [ just for D ]
MSFT : This is a Vista PC underneath it all .
Video patch that move on the table ( forcible brick playing video ) for a video jigsaw teaser . Cool .
Table demonstration over . Mossberg and Ballmer continue to chat …
WM You just spent a lot of money on search . Why are you still fall behind market share to google .
SB Market drawing card has impulse . We ’re well down the learning curve , the relevance of our search answer go up , Search innovation , stagnant for 6 days , so there ’s room for innovation . We ’re in the secret plan .
WM But you were in the game 2 years ago , and you ’re retain to drop off
SB We ’ve wallowed , not lose .
WM You trust or expect this ?
SB No , but it does n’t stop our purpose .
9:10 SB … the market leader …
WM : you may say google , you know .
SB : No , I ca n’t ! I have to say market leader !
WM: … You’re pall me .
9:17 WM Are you going to nonplus with Zune .
SB We do n’t degenerate thing . There ’s a short list of things we back off on . We opt to get in at one price gunpoint , with a gadget not too radical . This Xmas , we ’ll have something estimable .
9:18 WM Will you do a sound ?
SB No [ see LIKE HES dwell TO ME , IMO ] The notion of market share is nice for phones . But phones run software , and the interrogative sentence is , will it be our software program or from others .
WM So Samsung should n’t be worry you ’re give way to be intimate the headphone guys like the medicine bozo got screwed by their cooperator ?
SB They have their own site there … .[tapered off into jibberish ]
9:21 Rahul from Voodoo gets the big first query ( Rahul from HP ) “ making some coolheaded products ” . Something about simplifying products
WM Thanks for that commercial .
antimony : We all should . [ long fluffy response . ]
[ Editing heavy for fluff at this point ]
9:25 [ microsoft has both inquiry and R&D labs , did you know that ? Both . disjoined . There ’s something wrong with that . ]
SB … PCs for low income houses in our China research center field …
WM You ’re still more local than , say , google . Do you need to move to a more distributed model .
SB : It ’s inevitable , for natural endowment . But our people are flexible . Say you require to work on “ fu ” one day , and “ saloon ” the other solar day , you’re able to . [ Did he just say that they ’re solve on FUBAR ? ]
9:34 inquiry from someone : Most of the invention come from leisure and entertainment . But you ’re a crowing company that has the office to do thing like help organize , say , medical records . I marvel why you put some resources towards something like that years ago , but it seems like you could genuinely impact the world in that way .
SB We ’re doing that . The least automate and firm growing region of the economic system is wellness ( one could contend ) .
Session Closed .
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