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The Johnny Cash singer (Vince -- didn't catch his last name) is only 15 years old! Wow!!

MIX09 will be held March 18th through March 20th 2009!

Guy Kawasaki and Steve Ballmer

1. Why do you want to buy Yahoo!?
   1. MS wants to be a very serious player in the search and advertising online
   2. Search is the killer application of advertising
   3. "We've got a long way to go ... Yahoo [is a way to accelerate] that"
   4. "We've made an offer... and... we've made an offer"
2. Do you have to "do Google in"?
   1. they have to be a player
   2. I can say "google"... Google google google google...
   3. Google isn't there on desktop (Apple, Linux, yes)
   4. Google isn't there on servers and databases (IBM, SAP, yes)
   5. Google isn't in entertainment
   6. Google IS online...
   7. ... yeah we're the underdog
3. Is apple the chihuahua that you kick in the morning?
   1. Apple does a decent desktop machine
   2. Apple has a real good music player... again there, we're the underdog
   3. Apple has a new phone... we sell more phones than Apple
4. Facebook?
   1. It's all about the online presence
   2. We decided to partner with them
   3. We only put in a few hundred million
   4. I'm a Ford guy (no Lexus)
   5. MS is making $60 Billion a year in revenue
5. What drives you?
   1. I love what we do
      1. I'm pretty jazzed up about Silverlight 2
      2. Being at the forefront of changing technology
   2. Working with the smartest, funnest, more energetic people in the world
   3. Challenge
6. Describe your day...
   1. Customer days: 11 hours a day then on a plane and repeat the next day
   2. The doctor is in: one meeting after another after another
   3. Personal day:
7. How much email?
   1. About 60 a day
   2. No personal assistance filtering messages
   3. steveb@microsoft.com
   4. I'll probably get more than that tomorrow (laughter)
8. What about Silverlight?
   1. in the past you've had a choice, a rich application, or a web application; Silverlight is the bridge that makes it so you don't have to compromise
9. What's the deal with Vista? Seriously. The one that you get no choice of getting... (pulls out the Macbook Air)
   1. You mean the second most popular OS in the world?
   2. That thing is missing 1/2 the stuff of my Toshiba...
   3. and it's heavier too... (picks up the Air, falls to the ground descriptive of it's "weight")
   4. We made the choice to improve security and compatibility suffered... customers have been made us very aware of that
10. Let's talk about Firefox and IE...
    1. FF has certainly built position over the last couple of years
    2. I expect you'll see a lot of browser innovation from us in the near future
    3. No MSIE Mac, how come? Better to focus efforts on the larger market share than to bring another browser to the Mac
11. Social Networking
    1. It's not a fad, it's here to stay
    2. MySpace, Facebook, XBOX Live
    3. MSN Messenger, Live Communicator
    4. We have openness with our business customers with Sharepoint, etc.
12. It's a different Microsoft today
    1. Thanks, I really appreciate that.
    2. But if I get 150 to a thousand emails from this group tomorrow, don't expect an answer

Questions from the audience

1. What about Adobe?
   1. What ~about~ Adobe, to repeat the question using a little different body language
   2. Offering rich tools or developers
   3. Supporting them now and in the future as an ISV
   4. PDF still important
   5. Driving interoperability, while still competing
2. .NET, Since .NET has gotten better and better over the years, how come Internet Explorer got left out of the development platform
   1. Some mistakes and good learning
   2. we're now having to really hustle
3. If Microsoft takes over Yahoo, what are you going to do with all those PHP apps?
   1. We shouldn't have two of everything, two mail services, two search services, two messenging services; whatever technology comes will have to have infrastructure behind it; if that day comes I'm sure you'll still have some PHP running live and and in the future
   2. I guess we'll be a PHP and an ASP.NET shop
   3. Windows Server runs PHP applications really well... not that we'd make that change right away
4. What synergies would you have with Yahoo and how could you push it through the anti-trust process
   1. I'll pass on the second... or Guy will just say I'm giving a PR answer
   2. The more ads are served, the more revenue comes in, the more revenue the more there is to reinvest
5. What about FastSearch?
   1. Fast sold their web search to yahoo years ago
   2. They still have the technology to search on websites and in corporations
   3. Still in regulatory review
6. Virtualization Platform, Amazon Cloud...
   1. We have the technology through Hyper V to let anyone build server farms
   2. Will we ever offer the service (Ray Albun said we would yesterday)... it's definitely a great interest
7. With apologies to this audience, what are your plans/thoughts on the Supersonics?
   1. With apologies to you and the Seattle Times, I'm not going to talk about that today
8. Silverlight on the iPhone?
   1. Wouldn't it be great if Apple let open development tools run on their platform instead of charging, what the most expensive development platform in the world?
9. Danger
   1. Danger is part of the strategy to do applications and services on Windows Mobile
10. What phone do you use?
    1. I'm constantly rotating between them
    2. Do I want to give out my phone number here, too? No... No I don't (laughter)
11. When will Silverlight come to other Microsoft properties?
    1. When it's appropriate to do so
12. Microsoft in Healthcare?
    1. What's it gong to take to bootstrap consumer health, and how does that help me as a consumer
    2. How does my doctor tie in to all that
    3. HealthVault
    4. We don't have anywhere near all the ideas out there and look for innovation from 3rd parties
13. BluRay?
    1. We don't make drives
    2. We thought HD-DVD would be the winner, it was first to market, had a larger share, etc.
    3. We had an HD-DVD drive for XBOX
    4. We will support Blu-Ray in ways that make sense, windows drivers, etc.
    5. Its probably less important to think about the format of the disc when you look at the whole HD content delivery. Now it's important to have an optical drive in your laptop, in 5 years I think it will be less so
14. Can you show some love for Web Developers?
    1. Web Developers web developers web developers!
    2. If that guy behind you just gave you a buck, I want 50 cents of it
15. Thank you for DreamSparc, Channel 8, Student Tools. Now that we have the tools, what can you do to help with the infrastructure?
    1. Will we have some kind of service based utility to enable to do this? See the answer earlier. Will we have student discounts, who knows.
    2. Students -- and everyone else -- can view all of the content on the MIX website, Microsoft.com, and I'd love for you to use Live Search
16. Apple announced today that it's licensing ActiveSync to connect with MS Exchange, how is that going to compete?
    1. We'll be glad to see iPhone participate and take advantage of Exchange
17. What are our plans for RazorFish?
    1. ...

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