1. The Microsoft Technical Roadshow 2006 Welcome Phil Cross Technical Audience Group Manager

2. Listening I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen. Ernest Hemingway (1889 - 1961)

3. Who are we? 3 Audience managers http://www.microsoft.com/uk/technet/team.mspx

4. Who are we? 5 Technical Evangelists http://www.microsoft.com/uk/technet/team.mspx

5. Who are we?

6. The rest of Microsoft worldwide

7. Why do we exist? Customer Satisfaction Image and Perception Active Directory Deployment + other activity

8. What challenges do we face? philcr@microsoft.com

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10. Windows Vista Competition

11. People

12. Performance of “Wintel” hardware Service-oriented architecture Digitization of the economy Software breakthroughs Wireless, portable, Tablet PC, phone Industry Megatrends

13. The “Live” Era

14. Web Services Broad Sea Change

15. Multimedia/DRM Dynamic Systems Initiative XML/Web Services Mapping Machine learning Speech/Ink Vision Translation Microsoft Assets

16. The Beginning of the “Live” Era

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