Hi I'm Jose Gomez Cueto and I work in the Office 365 Product Marketing team. I am on site here at the Office 365 event in New York, and I’m excited to be bringing you a live look into today's events. Follow along here for more details from the morning and don’t forget tune in to watch Steve Ballmer take the stage at 10 a.m. ET.
We are here at the Skylight Soto in downtown New York. The press is already beginning to arrive, talking with assorted Microsoft employees and actual beta customers. The pic to the right is our Clint Patterson talking to customers from Bea's Insurance. Follow the link to read more about some of the customers using Office 365 today.
Here’s a pic of the inside our Elisa Graceffo demoing Office 365 to the press.
Loving the Jazz trio providing music for the event.
Steve Ballmer is it taking the stage and we are about to begin. You can watch live and I'll be capturing the main points below..
Steve: “Office is used by more than 1 billion people around the world.”
Steve: “We believe that effective collaboration is a matter of instant access to relevant information, ideas flowing freely and the right people taking the right action at the right time….the way we see it, great collaboration is critical to business growth.”
Steve: "It is impossible to overstate how important the small and medium sized segment is to the business world - they are responsible for nearly 2/3rds of global job growth and employ 1.5 billion people around the globe."
Steve: "We believe that the best collaboration technology should be available to everyone….without the requirement of a huge upfront investment or complex IT systems to manage and maintain."
It’s here – Steve just announced worldwide availability of Office 365.
Steve Ballmer has now passed the stage over to Kirk Koenigsbauer, CVP of Office Product Management for an Office 365 Demo.
Great Demo! People are loving the Lync Online Demo here in the room.
Kirk: “If you know how to edit word documents you can change your websites site look and feel.”
Steve Ballmer is now back on-stage, talking about some of our small business beta customers and how Office 365 has impacted their business.
Steve: “Some of the best companies on the planet already rely on our office cloud services and are excited about office 365.”
Steve: “Traveler’s Haven…can save $100,000 in IT expenses and cut out about 30 hours or work every day across the company. For Traveler’s Haven, that’s like increasing their staff by 30%.”
Steve: “The wise group in Scotland expects to cut travel costs and reduce carbon emissions by 30% after they retire 60 servers.” The CIO is turning the server room into a Jacuzzi suite.”… That’s great!
Steve: “There’s lots of opportunity out there to reach current and new customers – and to make that happen we’ll engage our massive global partner ecosystem.”
Steve: “Big-time partners – major telcos, leading hosters, and folks like Intuit – are packaging Office 365 with their services and delivering it to millions and millions of SMBs worldwide.”
Steve Ballmer is wrapping up. What do you think? Share your thoughts below and thanks for following!
The webcast is now available to be viewed on demand. If you missed it the first time or want to see it again, follow the link.
OK I’m off to meet with Latin American Press and customers! Thanks!
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