Watching the keynote with Allison Watson, very interesting. In a sharp contrast to yesterday’s direct pitch for Microsoft Online and handing your clients over for a 6% monthly commission, today the message is that Software + Service is actually a partner opportunity to use Microsoft technologies to power the Web 2.0-ish applications and designing them on top of the Microsoft platform.
Very, very silent on the “Just move your clients to our Data Center” pitch. They even brought up a few partners in the hosting space.
“You shouldn’t be a part of someone elses agenda, you should set the agenda.”
Things change overnight, don’t they?
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