Ballmer on PC's role in Web services world
C|Net | at | by Mike
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said on Tuesday that lines between on-premise software and Internet-delivered services are blurring, an industry shift the company is embracing.
Ballmer was interviewed Tuesday by Gartner analysts David Smith and Yvonne Genovese at the corporate technology research company's Symposium/ITxpo, under way in Orlando, Fla.
During his talk, Ballmer said many Web sites can be described as "click to run," where a service is delivered via a Web site but runs on a PC.
"I do think that we're in a transition where software goes from something that's in its pre-Internet day to something we call Live (Microsoft's hosted services), where you have click-to-run capability on a Web site... But software will still execute on a PC," Ballmer said in response to questions.