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Day 2 of MGX was breakout session day and I went to a few okay ones but one great one – titled Enthusiast/Buzz Machine. I went because of the title of the session more than anything and was delighted to find it was being presented by Jeff Sandquist. Bizarrely I had left Jeff a voice mail about 5 minutes before this asking if we could grab coffee so it worked out perfect. Who is Jeff – he’s the man (well one of the team) behind Channel 9 and 10 who I think are just doing amazing work connecting with our customers and partners and we (the UK office) have a lot to learn from them. Jeff was a pretty cool dude and we spent some time discussing how we could learn from both C9 and 10 and perhaps contribute to the latter or host PTS-TV via the former. I’m still not totally sure how and when we’re going to get the UK effort of the ground but I bumped in to another UK director at the aiport and discussed this with him. He thinks a UK video blog would be great and I was quite taken aback when he said “the important thing is we give people latitude to say what they want to”. Nice.
Anyway, the guys at 10 just launched a new look for the site which is fantastic. Check it out along with their new manifesto.
I also attended a session with the OfficeLive team (at 7am in the morning guys!!!) and did a short PTS-TV video with Rajesh Jha, General Manager of Office Live which I’ll post soon.
In other news we announced a buyback of $20bn of MSFT shares. The biggest buyback in the history of business - shows we’re confident in the future and lets hope the investtors agree and our share price responds!