Ballmer: The 'Live' era is coming
MS-Watch | at | by Mike
Microsoft partners won't see much, if any, new revenues from Microsoft's growing Live family of services in the next year. But throughout the coming decade, the Live tide will transform the kinds of products and services that Microsoft and its partners will be selling, according to Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer.
Ballmer described Live as "all about using the Internet to remake the software business itself."
Ballmer included as part of his presentation a demonstration of a couple of new Live services. The Dynamics Live CRM demo received the most applause during his remarks. Another new service about which Ballmer offered very little information -- a service known alternatively as both "Windows Live Search Center" and Windows Live OneView -- will go to beta later this month, Ballmer said.