UPDATE : Windows 7photosandfeature details here . Highlight videos , way comfortable to stomach than my liveblog , are after the jump .
https://gizmodo.com/windows-7-first-official-photos-393552
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6:15 We ’re here . Things should originate in a few .
6:23 howler , Owen Thomas from Valleywag was kicked out of the intact hotel . He ’d contrive to pose at the ginmill and report from outside , but he ’s banned . CORRECTION : He ’s at the bar .
6:29 Dow Jones is reading off supporter . contain on , Gates will be here before long .
6:31 Mossberg and Swisher are on stage , warming up the crowd and talk about the versa tubes behind them on the stage .
6:35 present a music director ’s cut of the Gatesretirement video .
https://gizmodo.com/this-video-makes-bill-gates-look-cooler-than-steve-jobs-341472
6:46 Gates and Ballmer on stage . Mossberg ask if they were roomy but they were not . ( Gates and Ballmer shake their heads and grinned . They were in the same dorm . ) People thought they ’d be adept ally and premise them . They were both very intense , but Gates say that he was not into signing up for campus natural action . Ballmer signed up for all things he could .
6:49 Walt : Did you adjudicate to talk Gates into stay ? Ballmer : No !
6:50 Ballmer is talking about his experience at Stanford whenBill Gatestried to hire him .
6:51 Gates called Ballmer while he was at Stanford and test to hire him . Ballmer aver that Gates anticipate and when hear Ballmer was still in schooling , he hang up . Ballmer call back the next daytime and they agreed Ballmer should fetch up his first year .
6:52 Ballmer did a bad job at first , by his reckoning : things ship late and people worked really intemperately all the time .
6:56 Bill Gates had spreadsheets about contract , tax revenue and payroll for everyone , all over his business firm . In the couch , etc . Bill to Ballmer at that fourth dimension : I did n’t pull you out of business organization shoal to bankrupt us !
6:57 Bill spelled out the vision for Ballmer then : they could put a electronic computer on every screen background . Bill told Ballmer at that time : charter as fast as you could and I ’ll differentiate you if we ’re receive in front of ourselves .
7:01 Mossberg : There is not a history of two executives turn for so long together . Ballmer : 28 year . Kara : What made Ballmer special ? Gates : It was important to do it together , two heads together . Like when IBM disassociate us a couple of times , we went through that together . Mossberg : There is a perception that Gates is the Tech guy and Ballmer is the sales guy . gate : There ’s a draw more to running a company than the tech , like the strategy , sales , etc .
7:02 Ballmer : I ran the production management for Windows 1 , but I ’m not an engineer . Ballmer : We ’re both detail orient , but in different ways . Bill knows more about products . I have a go at it more bout humor and people ’s situations and finance .
7:04 Kara : You consider yourself a business sector man ? Gates : sale minus costs equals profit . Is there more ? ( laughter )
7:05 Mossberg : elbow room few people cognise who Ballmer was than Gates . Did that bother you because you just talk about a partnership ? Ballmer : Did that ever bother you ? Because it was undecomposed for the party than in person , and being famous is not easy . And Gates was the older partner when I signed on until 8 years ago when he want to switch , so it was never a big deal to me .
7:08 Kara : As next-to-last now , do you get to veto ? peak : No . Walt : How did you adapt to the persona shift between third-year and senior ? Ballmer : It was gruelling . Took a twelvemonth to adjust to how much work to ascribe him compared to the eternal rest of the squad . But Bill Gates die to part time is not live on to affect things as much .
Mossberg : But are n’t you , Bill , the Chairman of the Board and the largest shareholder ? Bill starts to do but Mossberg stops him from spinning . He wants and serve . He wants to get a line how unmanageable it will be to extricate him . Ballmer : Bill ’s available to me as a friend and resourcefulness , he ’s not part of the formal process , that ’s not how I seem at it . Kara : What if he calls you an moron ? Ballmer : I am used to that , for 28 years !
7:11 Mossberg offers Ballmer a whiteboard , because he considers Ballmer a maestro of the whiteboard . Ballmer step up and cash in one’s chips to excuse the yahoo situation . He ’s just talking business organisation jargon . fundamentally , Yahoo is important for the exfoliation of the business for advertizing .
7:15 Mossberg : Can you get scale from Yahoo without a full learning ? Ballmer : Well we ’re still talking to them . No one else gets scale but Google . If the WSJ ’s ads were sold only through Google , they ’d differentiate you how it was price and that ’s all it . Kara : Like a monopoly ! Gates : Guys like us avoid monopoly because we care to compete ! ( Laughs )
7:20 lots of gross sales poppycock , publicizing stuff , and jargon . I will save you .
7:21 Ballmer says something tacky and Mossberg says he find frightened for a second .
7:23 Mossberg : allow ’s talk about Vista . People did n’t like it . Is Vista a failure ?
Ballmer : It is n’t . We sell 150 million copies of Vista . Would we have done things diff ? Yes , with 20/20 hindsight . There was so much pressure to be secure , we afford up some compatibility for protection . We have made progress since it was in the market . Walt : countenance me necessitate Bill , he ’s being quiet . Is Vista up to your expectation ? Did it damage the party ? Bill : Well no version has ship as pure for me . But that ’s the wizard affair about package , citizenry give you feedback and you make a young version . With Vista , we have a lot of hazard to better . There ’s a lot of things that were well get in Vista . This is the most used software in the Earth . There are plenty of probability to find out from Vista . Ballmer : There are two things that are different in Vista . The exploiter user interface variety was jarring .
7:40Windows 7 was just unveiled and here are the pic . Here ’s afeature contingent breakdown .
7:43 Mossberg : The compounding of Vista and whatever the OEMs put on there make it dumb . Ballmer : We ’re working on lay down the closing to end experience higher . We ’re prove to get more in front of the breaking ball in Windows 7 to make it better .
7:46 Ballmer : Every share point Apple picks up , is a point we do n’t wish . There ’s no question our simulation is better . That does n’t mean that it ’s what everyone likes . ( There ’s a lot of rambling here , and jargon , and its hard to find oneself any facts in here . ) Mossberg keeps press for an answer on if they were happy about Vista , but Ballmer distinguish him , half - jokingly that Walt is repeating himself . Walt need an answer but he plausibly know not to answer this after he answer truthfully at CES to our ownvideo cameras .
https://gizmodo.com/holy-crap-did-bill-gates-just-say-windows-sucks-342920
7:51 [ dismal about jumping to the other stake on Windows 7 and delaying here . There ’s a lot going on and its hard to keep it all together , folk music . ]
7:51 They ’re peach about phones . Ballmer express that Nokia is one and they ’re two . He ’s babble business jargon again , but I recollect they need to talk less about business and more about product lineament .
Kara : How do you look at Google Android ? Ballmer : They ’re taking a crack at the pie , no one bang what their business model is , and they have no phone , but we ’ll see . They ’re a serious company , and we take them seriously , but no one knows .
7:55 Kara : Anything you want to say , Bill , as you ’re hit the hay before long ? neb : Probably the last sentence I ’ll speak here . Walt : Nooo Bill : Defers to Melinda who will explicate the Foundation ’s work later .
7:55 motion from the crew : Any thought of putting ad in the current Msft products , since we spent so much time on them ? Ballmer : He ’s not certain it would work here , but there is a mickle of Jargon here . flier : If someone is using Office , they do n’t desire to be disorder . But with Office Live , it ’s potential .
7:59 Question : How do you draw natural endowment ? Bill : Success breeds success , and voguish people want to work with other smart masses and that dynamic is one to keep strong .
8:00 Tim O’Reilly : Big companies have big hairy end , like putting personal computer on every desktop . What ’s Microsoft ’s goal now ? broadsheet : Software driven goals , he goes on to cite many interrogative sentence , like how is the information doer ’s environment going to transfer ? , etc . , and does n’t really suffice the question about what Microsoft ’s goal is .
8:05 Slide bozo asks : What ’s the take on programs and apps within browser app , like Facebook and Myspace . Kara : After superpoke . Ballmer : The future of computing is more balanced , in the cloud or in the web browser . What people want is presentation from a squeamish guest with the connectivity and collaboration within the browser app . That ’s what we ’re driving on the software + service strategy . Bill Gates is rushing through tech elements like 3d and strorage , but he ’s finally establish the comparison between the networked computer before . Kara : Do you apply contrivance ? ( Facebook . ) Bill : I got overwhelmed . Lots of mass poking you , etc .
8:07 Ester Dyson has a Q , following up on Tim O’Reilly ’s . Why not take on for profit health care , not just something incremental like better TV . Ballmer : Our public is software package and that ’s what we help with . Once we impart that , we ’re not sure we ’re the best Guy .
8:09 Finished . More from cholecalciferol tomorrow at 8 am PST . That was an exceedingly voiceless conversation to follow , with raft of dodging and rambling , so please excuse my transformation and check outallthingsd.comfor the prescribed copy .
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