The first sign that Steve Ballmer was in the house came when I saw a cop car parked outside the University of Washington’s Computer Science & Engineering building. Then there were the paper signs telling you where to line up for his 10 am talk today.
The Microsoft CEO doesn’t make many local public appearances, so it was a rare opportunity to see him speak about company strategy at the UW. It was his first talk in the Allen Center, which was jam-packed and standing room only. His focus today was supposed to be on “cloud computing,” but it was really much broader than what most people call cloud computing these days. It was more about Internet software in general and Microsoft’s vision for reinventing itself in the era of the Web. (What this says specifically about Windows Azure—Microsoft’s cloud computing platform currently being rolled out—I’m not quite sure yet.)
To learn more and to read the entire article at its source, please refer to the following page, Steve Ballmer at UW: Is This Microsoft’s Cloud Computing Strategy, or Just Internet Software?- Xconomy.com
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