S+S and Breakfast on Broadway
I covered Software Plus Services at Telehouse’s Breakfast on Broadway series yesterday. Telehouse provides Data Center Services and Managed Services. This was a fun and intimate event. You can read more about them at www.telehouse.com and you can download my presentation at the link below.
Giving a concise and compelling message about what Microsoft is doing with respect to Software Plus Services (S+S) is one of the more challenging things I have done at Microsoft. The reason, S+S permeates everything we are doing at Microsoft. All of our existing products will someday be in the cloud as on line services. Eventually even our application development platform will be in the cloud as a Cloud Platform – the implication here is that custom line of business applications will be able to run on this Cloud Platform. (Think about that for a moment.)
So the talk I gave at Telehouse is my attempt to tell this story in a time frame that fits into the attention span of an executive. Roughly 30 minutes. I like to refer to these types of talks as conversations that use small words that lead to big ideas.
One word of warning – I try to avoid using PowerPoints that abuse bullet points. Excessive bullet points always give the audience a headache because it is hard to read a complex slide and listen to the presenter at the same time. I like simple graphics. So when you download my PowerPoint presentation make sure that you read the comments section of each slide to ascertain what each slide is all about.
Enjoy
-Keith