So, the second major pillar of how we deliver the world’s best productivity is to deliver the cloud on the customer’s terms. If they want Microsoft to run all of that technology on their behalf and take care of running those servers and patching those servers, then we want them to be able to do that as well, and we’re doing that with our cloud productivity service called Office 365. If customers want to run all of this technology themselves in their own datacenter, virtualized servers, et cetera, we want that to be possible and they can do that with Exchange Server, SharePoint Server, Lync Server.
And we’re doing that, the PC, the phone, and the browser, Lync and Word and Excel and PowerPoint and Outlook, all of those applications are available on your PC and your Macintosh, on browsers, on phones, and we’ll get into more details on that today.Ī major part of our mission is also to deliver this technology to customers on their terms, to deliver the cloud on customers’ terms. And with Office and Lync and SharePoint and Exchange, our mission is to deliver the best productivity experience across the PC, the phone, and the browser. So when we think about how Lync fits into the broad Office strategy, it’s actually incredibly clear: Lync is the lynchpin to our communications strategy. It completes that family of Office products that is ushering in a new era of communications, a new era of collaboration. Lync 2010 completes the latest wave of Office 2010, SharePoint 2010, Exchange 2010. We feel like with Lync the future of productivity is really here today. Lync is a major part of our broad Office strategy. We found opportunities to integrate communications directly into Office and make them very, very simple to do. We’ve been working on unified communications now for a good five or six years and it was that time where we really saw an opportunity to transform the way communications are done. It’s a long journey that we have been on. Now, this is a very big day for Microsoft. So, a big thank you to all of you for joining, and to all of our customers and partners for making it possible. We couldn’t be more pleased to have this opportunity to thank all of our customers and our partners who have worked hard with us to bring Lync to the marketplace and to be here in New York City to launch the product. My name is Chris Capossela, and I’m a senior vice president with the Office Division, and in a few minutes I’ll be joined by Gurdeep Singh Pall, who is a corporate vice president, who leads the Lync engineering team. (Applause, music.)ĬHRIS CAPOSSELA: Well, good morning, everybody, and thank you so much for joining us here today at the Microsoft Lync launch. Remarks by Chris Capossela, Senior Vice President, Information Worker Product Management Group, and Gurdeep Singh Pall, Corporate Vice President, Office Lync & Speech GroupĪNNOUNCER: Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Senior Vice President for the Microsoft Corporation, Chris Capossela.