Microsoft’s CEO Steve Ballmer made a surprise appearance yesterday as Microsoft’s Build conference continued. Personally I was wondering where he was and expected him to show up at some stage, after all I would have thought it’s a pretty big deal announcing a new Windows OS to the world, so surely the man in charge should be present.
Ballmer took the stage in his usual enthusiastic fashion yesterday just after a highly technical presentation on Microsoft’s efforts in cloud computing. He announced that in the 12 hours that the Windows 8 Developer Preview had been released, it had been downloaded over 500,000 times by developers and Microsoft enthusiasts around the world. However, he did add that there is still a lot of work to be done with Windows 8 before it’s ready for the public.
He noted that while most of the core operating system is in place, the company is still working on the services that will accompany Windows 8 as well as the efforts to bring it to ARM-based systems. He was very clear to point out that Windows 8 won’t be running on “Intel or ARM” but it will be “Intel and ARM” much to everyone’s delight.
Ballmer stressed how many new opportunities were coming up for Windows developers and Microsoft, be it in the cloud, on mobile platforms or on the traditional desktop.
Our approach to these new opportunities is centered in Windows, It’s not about doing something else. It’s about broadly re-imagining Windows.
From there he continued to talk about the companies broader efforts such as Windows Phone 7, Windows Live as well as other areas. All the while Ballmer was doing his best to rally up the developers saying how great an opportunity it is for them. He has a valid point as well, Windows will be shipped on over 350 million PC’s this year, and the chances are it will be the same next year, if not more. Nobody can compete with that, not Apple, not Android, no one.
Let’s move forward, let’s seize the opportunity for developers
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