3GSM: Ballmer works the crowd, offers Valentine's love
InfoWorld | at | by Mike
Steve Ballmer arguably knows how to work a crowd and sell his message. His debut keynote Tuesday at the 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona was no exception.
Addressing a packed auditorium of mobile-phone executives, the chief executive officer of Microsoft admitted that as a "newbie" speaker he couldn't be more excited to attend the event.
"Today is Valentine's Day, a day of love and affection," he said to a chuckling audience. "Now, I'm a guy some of you have probably seen on the Internet yelling how much I love Microsoft. So my theme on this today is -- I love the mobile industry and I love our operator partners."
Ballmer got the laughter he intended and everyone's attention, too. Then, he zeroed in on his main theme: many devices people now carry in their pockets are like "mini PCs" and these devices are connecting to ever more-powerful mobile broadband networks.