
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?”
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March 7th, 2008 at 3:31 pm
Great to have you blogging again Channy, but don’t just tell us the news we can read in other places - give us your opinion and especially how it relates to Korea!
June 19th, 2008 at 5:50 pm
“Where’s the DVD drive?” This is why MS always misses the watershed moments in the world of IT. Gates never believed open and free software. Gates totally missed the point of the Internet and invested in the early MSN. Now Ballmer, who by the way is no tech visionary, is saying “where’s the DVD?” That’s the best counter-argument againt the brilliantly conceived, designed, and built MacBook Air? He and the rest of MS simply don’t get it! That’s why I bet on Apple.
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