Live Blog: Microsoft Office 2010 – A Discussion With Executive Management

We are at the Microsoft campus in Seattle today for a Future of Productivity Council event.

We are hearing from Kurt delBene, president of the Microsoft office team. We’ll be looking for how the team sees Office fitting with the cloud and Web apps.

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delBene is presenting some of the numbers:

• Microsoft Office 2010 is now the fastest selling version of Office in history.
• More than 30 million people use the Office Web application.
• More tham 100 million SharePoint licenses sold to more than 17,000 customers.
• 73% of enterprises in the United States currently use Exchange as primary email system.

delBene says the the company is still up in the air about if people are happy to go Twitter or Facebook or if people want a combined experience.

Office 365 is in limited beta. It is on track to launch later this year.

3:40 p.m.: delBene says the company is focused on using the Web to optimize its apps for the iPad.

3:42 p.m.: In a Microsoft context, opening attachements are how most web applications are used. Anywhere access to content is the future, though. But for now the numbers show that people use apps for opening attachments.

3:47: The cloud is the megatrend affecting how people work:

• By 2016, 43% of information workers in the United States will telecommute.
• In 2011, the digital universe will be 10 times the size of what it was in 2006.
• Social networks and blogs now account for more than 20% of time spent online.

Discuss