Microsoft powers up for change

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[photo credit, me - hence why I do this job and not photography]

I haven't got my head around that headline from The Telegraph today following their interview with Steve Ballmer yesterday but this quote caught my eye

"We are a software company, and yet in a sense, the very form of our core capability is changing. We need to change our capabilities so that we are not just good at writing bits that you put out on CD and deliver, but rather writing this thing that is a living, breathing, dynamic, organic thing."

The engines are really starting to whir and at yesterday's Web 2.0 event that Steve presented at here in London, people seemed pretty wowed by some of our moves in this area such as Popfly, Silverlight, Photosynth and Seadragon. Sam Sethi who isn't the biggest Microsoft fan I ever came across suggested to me that we need to do more of these types of events and I agree. Sam has a pretty good writeup at Blognation though I don't agree the Office Live Workspaces competes with Google Docs - they're too different for me but maybe we just haven't positioned it well enough.

In hindsight I wish we had also demo'ed Windows Live Writer for the many bloggers in the audience but I heard Marc Holmes did some of the best demos people have seen in a long time from Microsoft so hats off to him. Top work old chap....now, can I have that SeaDragon demo off you? :)

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