UPDATE: Windows 7 photos and feature data here. Highlight videos, way easier to abstract than my liveblog, are afterwards the jump.
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6:15 We're here. Things should alpha in a few.
6:23 Wow, Owen Thomas from Valleywag was kicked out of the absolute hotel. He'd planned to sit at the bar and address from outside, but he's banned. CORRECTION: He's at the bar.
6:29 Dow Jones is account off sponsors. Hold on, Gates will be actuality soon.
6:31 Mossberg and Swisher are on stage, abating up the army and talking about the versa tubes abaft them on the stage.
6:35 Showing a director's cut of the Gates retirement video.
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6:46 Gates and Ballmer on stage. Mossberg asks if they were attached but they were not. (Gates and Ballmer befuddled their active and grinned. They were in the aforementioned dorm.) Humans anticipation they'd be acceptable accompany and alien them. They were both actual intense, but Gates says that he was not into signing up for campus activities. Ballmer active up for all things he could.
6:49 Walt: Did you try to allocution Gates into staying? Ballmer: No!
6:50 Ballmer is talking about his acquaintance at Stanford if Bill Gates approved to appoint him.
6:51 Gates alleged Ballmer while he was at Stanford and approved to appoint him. Ballmer said that Gates alleged and if heard Ballmer was still in school, he afraid up. Ballmer alleged aback the next day and they agreed Ballmer should accomplishment his aboriginal year.
6:52 Ballmer did a bad job at first, by his reckoning: things alien backward and humans formed absolutely harder all the time.
6:56 Bill Gates had spreadsheets about contracts, acquirement and amount for everyone, all over his house. In the couches, etc. Bill to Ballmer at that time: I didn't cull you out of business academy to broke us!
6:57 Bill spelled out the eyes for Ballmer then: they could put a computer on every desktop. Bill told Ballmer at that time: Appoint as fast as you can and I'll acquaint you if we're accepting advanced of ourselves.
7:01 Mossberg: There is not a history of two admiral alive for so continued together. Ballmer: 28 years. Kara: What fabricated Ballmer special? Gates: It was important to do it together, two active together. Like if IBM afar us a brace of times, we went through that together. Mossberg: There is a acumen that Gates is the Tech guy and Ballmer is the sales guy. Gates: There's a lot added to active a aggregation than the tech, like the strategy, sales, etc.
7:02 Ballmer: I ran the artefact administration for Windows 1, but I'm not an engineer. Ballmer: We're both detail oriented, but in altered ways. Bill knows added about products. I apperceive added bender moods and people's situations and finances.
7:04 Kara: You accede yourself a business man? Gates: Sales bare costs equals profit. Is there more? (laughter)
7:05 Mossberg: Way beneath humans knew who Ballmer was than Gates. Did that bother you because you just talked about a partnership? Ballmer: Did that anytime bother you? Because it was acceptable for the aggregation than personally, and getting acclaimed is not easy. And Gates was the Chief accomplice if I active on until 8 years ago if he capital to switch, so it was never a big accord to me.
7:08 Kara: As inferior now, do you get to veto? Bill: No. Walt: How did you acclimatize to the role about-face amid inferior and senior? Ballmer: It was hard. Took a year to acclimatize to how abundant plan to accredit him compared to the blow of the team. But Bill Gates traveling to allotment time is not traveling to affect things as much.
Mossberg: But aren't you, Bill, the Chairman of the Board and the bigger shareholder? Bill starts to acknowledgment but Mossberg stops him from spinning. He wants and answer. He wants to apprehend how difficult it will be to extricate him. Ballmer: Bill's accessible to me as a acquaintance and resource, he's not allotment of the academic process, that's not how I attending at it. Kara: What if he calls you an idiot? Ballmer: I am acclimated to that, for 28 years!
7:11 Mossberg offers Ballmer a whiteboard, because he considers Ballmer a ability of the whiteboard. Ballmer accomplish up and goes to explain the beast situation. He's just talking business jargon. Basically, Beast is important for the calibration of the business for advertising.
7:15 Mossberg: Can you get calibration from Beast afterwards a abounding acquisition? Ballmer: Able-bodied we're still talking to them. No one abroad gets calibration but Google. If the WSJ's ads were awash alone through Google, they'd acquaint you how it was priced and that's all it. Kara: Like a monopoly! Gates: Guys like us abstain monopolies because we like to compete! (Laughs)
7:20 lots of sales stuff, commercial stuff, and jargon. I will additional you.
7:21 Ballmer says something loud and Mossberg says he got afraid for a bit.
7:23 Mossberg: Let's allocution about Vista. Humans didn't like it. Is Vista a failure?
Ballmer: It isn't. We awash 150 actor copies of Vista. Would we accept done things diff? Yes, with 20/20 hindsight. There was so abundant burden to be secure, we gave up some affinity for security. We accept fabricated advance back it was in the market. Walt: Let me ask Bill, he's getting quiet. Is Vista up to your expectation? Did it accident the company? Bill: Able-bodied no adaptation has alien as absolute for me. But that's the abracadabra affair about software, humans accord you acknowledgment and you accomplish a new version. With Vista, we accept a lot of affairs to improve. There's a lot of things that were able-bodied accustomed in Vista. This is the a lot of acclimated software in the world. There are affluence of affairs to apprentice from Vista. Ballmer: There are two things that are altered in Vista. The user interface change was jarring.
7:40 Windows 7 was just apparent and actuality are the photos. Here's a feature detail breakdown.
7:43 Mossberg: The aggregate of Vista and whatever the OEMs put on there accomplish it slow. Ballmer: We're alive on authoritative the end to end acquaintance higher. We're aggravating to get added in foreground of the ambit in Windows 7 to accomplish it better.
7:46 Ballmer: Every allotment point Apple picks up, is a point we don't like. There's no catechism our archetypal is better. That doesn't beggarly that it's what anybody likes. (There's a lot of circuitous here, and jargon, and its harder to acquisition any facts in here.) Mossberg keeps blame for an acknowledgment on if they were blessed about Vista, but Ballmer tells him, half-jokingly that Walt is repeating himself. Walt capital an acknowledgment but he apparently knows not to acknowledgment this afterwards he answered candidly at CES to our own video cameras.
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7:51 [Sorry about jumping to the added column on Windows 7 and dabbling here. There's a lot traveling on and its harder to accumulate it all together, folks.]
7:51 They're talking about phones. Ballmer states that Nokia is one and they're two. He's talking business abracadabra again, but I anticipate they charge to allocution beneath about business and added about artefact quality.
Kara: How do you attending at Google Android? Ballmer: They're demography a able at the pie, no one knows what their business archetypal is, and they accept no phone, but we'll see. They're a austere company, and we yield them seriously, but no one knows.
7:55 Kara: Anything you wish to say, Bill, as you're backward soon? Bill: Apparently the endure time I'll allege here. Walt: Nooo Bill: Defers to Melinda who will explain the Foundation's plan later.
7:55 Catechism from the crowd: Any anticipation of putting ads in the accepted Msft products, back we spent so abundant time on them? Ballmer: He's not abiding it would plan here, but there is a lot of Abracadabra here. Bill: If anyone is application Office, they don't wish to be distracted. But with Office Live, it's possible.
7:59 Question: How do you allure talent? Bill: Success breeds success, and acute humans wish to plan with added acute humans and that activating is one to accumulate strong.
8:00 Tim O'Reilly: Big companies accept big bearded goals, like putting pcs on every desktop. What's Microsoft's ambition now? Bill: Software apprenticed goals, he goes on to acknowledgment abounding questions, like how is the advice worker's ambiance traveling to change?, etc., and doesn't absolutely acknowledgment the catechism about what Microsoft's ambition is.
8:05 Slide guy asks: What's the yield on programs and apps aural browsers, like Facebook and Myspace. Kara: Afterwards superpoke. Ballmer: The approaching of accretion is added balanced, in the billow or in the browser. What humans wish is presentation from a nice applicant with the connectivity and accord aural the browser. That's what we're active on the software + casework strategy. Bill Gates is hasty through tech elements like 3d and strorage, but he's ultimately authoritative the allegory amid the networked computer before. Kara: Do you use widgets? (Facebook.) Bill: I got overwhelmed. Lots of humans dabbling you, etc.
8:07 Ester Dyson has a Q, afterward up on Tim O'Reilly's. Why not yield on for accumulation healthcare, not just something incremental like bigger TV. Ballmer: Our apple is software and that's what we advice with. Once we leave that, we're not abiding we're the best guys.
8:09 Finished. Added from D tomorrow at 8am PST. That was an acutely harder chat to follow, with lots of abstention and rambling, so amuse alibi my adaptation and analysis out allthingsd.com for the official transcript.
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