October 6th, 2008
Student Technology Day: Steve Ballmer Q&A
There was quite a lot to transcribe out, and many questions asked. Some questions put to Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft, include:
- Will we always need programmers?
- What’s Microsoft’s input in Facebook and social networking?
- Does Microsoft have any changes in mind for their lack of “coolness” image in comparison to Google and Apple?
- What keeps you awake at night?
- What’s Microsoft’s view on open-source?
- Can you see Microsoft introducing multi-touch and Surface to a wider audience?
Because there was quite a lot of text to this, use the arrows at the bottom of this post to go through them, otherwise my editor wouldn’t be happy and would kick my arse across the continent.
For the answer to the question that I asked on behalf of Mary-Jo, in regards to the future of Office Live, ahead of the PDC 2008 conference next week, head over to my previous post. Not only that, he discloses some brief information about “Windows in the cloud”, which may or may not have any connection to Windows Live, Live Mesh and the future of Office Live. We’ll just have to wait and see.
Programmers, developing countries and social networking –>
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