On Mix 08 keynote stage, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer talked about the latest Microsoft issues with Guy Kawasaki. Guy asked sixteen questions to Steve. After asking to shout “web” developers from one guy, Steve Ballmer screamed three times of “web developers”.

Guy’s questions for Steve Ballmer

1. Huge footprint on the consumer Web - what are you doing with it? Yahoo?
2. How will you win against Google?
3. Why are you still at Microsoft after all these years? Bill’s called it a day…
4. Sliverlight downloads progress?
5. Advertising?
6. What’s the current status with the EU?
7. What does the post-Bill Gates MS look like?
8. MS in too many businesses - have you lost focus?
9. Corp agility. Is MS the new IBM?
10. What is your social networking strategy?
11. What is Facebook really work?
12. Are you warried that Apple’s gaining share?
13. Next version of Windows underwheliming?
14. IE vs. Firefoix?
15. Live strategy - what is it?
16. Mobile. What’s MS’s iPhone?

You can see answers of Cnet and BetaNews’s live article.

update. Baller gives an action for Macbook Air.

Kawasaki pointed out that most people don’t have a choice and get it when they buy a PC. Ballmer then reached and grabbed Kawasaki’s MacBook Air out of an envelope. “Is this running Vista?” he asked. Kawasaki said that it wasn’t. The two then debated the merits of the machine.

“Don’t you want a machine this light?” Kawasaki asked, with Ballmer saying his Toshiba laptop weighs less. “That thing is missing half the features,” Ballmer said, referring to the MacBook. “Where’s the DVD drive?”