Microsoft Global Exchange: Ballmer, Ozzie rock

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BasP — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 15:21:09 GMT

@Alber1690: He's just.. running through the crowd, high-fiving. Cool, but not crowdsurfing.

re: Microsoft Global Exchange: Ballmer, Ozzie rock

Alber1690 — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 15:03:33 GMT

I just realized how much I love that picture...lol. With Steve on hundreds of screens and pointing down, with "HEROES" splashed all over the background...and to top it all off, the crossed-out Google...HAHA. Thanks for pointing it out Kip ;p

@Alimaggs: Very good points...well said.

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Chris — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 14:45:44 GMT

Yup we've mentioned it a couple of time, including for last year's event: www.liveside.net/.../windows-live-at-mgx.aspx

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Kip Kniskern — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 11:34:33 GMT

Quikboy. MGX is not new, but it is an internal Microsoft event, not open to the public. I'm sure there are plenty of internal websites related to it. We're not sure what to make of it either, but thought it would be fun to pass along the mentions we found regarding this internal event.

If nothing else, it points out the difficulties in keeping anything under wraps when you invite 13k geeks with cameras to come from all over the world (including Sweden, even!), and let them loose.

re: Microsoft Global Exchange: Ballmer, Ozzie rock

quikboy — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 10:27:41 GMT

What's with the Swedish flags?

And the first picture and the video show a bunch of difference screens going on at once. How can people keep up?

I also never heard of MGX before this post. Is it new? There wasn't even a clear site about it. I'm not even sure what to make of what happened at MGX, but just promises and goals that Microsoft hopes to achieve for Windows and Windows Live.

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yertthedestroyer — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 07:27:07 GMT

This isn't public enough. We need FTP now!

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Alimaggs — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 03:44:56 GMT

"Fantastic Brand and Marketing"

Good. About time.

Easy to do. Drop the "windows" from "windows live" and move everything to the live.com domain (home.live.com never made sense), push on the social networking. Give live search its own domain name, rebrand, and do some good/funny/clever advertising. MSN, keep for content.

The thing that irks me, as a user, and as a person that gets called by family/friends every time a computer query comes up, is that Windows Live has great products, Live.com is a great search engine (finally!), and yet nobody knows about the cool things they can do. It's so completely not easy to get into.

I mean, if I wanted to find out about windows live, where would I go? "Imagine Windows Live" (out dated, old), home.live.com (nobody can find it easy enough), windowslive.com (ranks poorly in the search engines), windows.com???

I'm looking forward to MS being a bit smarter over wave 3. There's such great stuff going on, it just isn't, in my opinion, being pushed enough and the brands are still utterly confusing, especially to the less technically dependent.

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Alber1690 — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 03:20:28 GMT

@BasP: Steve was crowdsurfing from 1:37-1:54.

They need to stop building up all this suspense for the Vista marketing and show them to the world already! They said they were for the summer and I want to enjoy them while I'm on break and get to catch them all across TV networks.

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BasP — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 02:33:19 GMT

So... at what point in that video is he crowdsurfing?

Anyway, interesting, Praise for those ads from one marketing guy isn't exactly a great endorsement, but we'll see when they arrive. Anyone know when that'll be?