Office Live, announces Gates and Ozzie
Speaking in SanFrancisco, Bill Gates has just announced Windows Live and Office Live.
Real-time notes from CrunchNotes : Well, it’s started. I’m sitting about 20 feet from Bill Gates, who’s speaking now. Next to Niall Kennedy. Dave Winer, Steve Gillmor and Dan Farber are at the table next to me. About 200 people total are here. …
Came back on stage at 10:37, announced Windows Live and Office Live. WWW.LIVE.COM
Windows Live: Primarily ad supported. Does not kill off MSN.
Office Live: “internet based services for growing and managing your business online.” extensible, thousands of partners. ad supported level with tier above requiring subscription.
In a new slide, Bill is differentiating between products (windows, xbox, etc.) and technologies (mapping, machine learning, etc.)
Ray Ozzie, CTO, is now on stage at 10:43. Talking about a flattening of the world. internet services are transformative technologies.
Ray notes three trends, says he is giving us a preview of how microsoft is reshaping microsoft to work around these trends. Says “we will show products in the open. will ship progressively, out in the open.”
Online advertising: growing rapidly. can build realbusinesses around it. may grow to $150b by 2015. worldwide market is $500b. Talks about the overture model. we’ve barely scratched the serive on how to pair ads with people (sounds like battelle’s book). MS has 10% share of online advertising today.
Showing the microsoft ad engine slide. windows products on one side, the world on the other. wow.
Windows is “software and services that brings together your digital life.” Sure sounds like “live” is what we’ve been saying is “web 2.0? all this time (except without the RSS, at least so far).
Windows is completely separate from Windows Live. Interaction through documents only.
