WPC Day 1 Twitter Highlights: Ballmer Touts Microsoft Cloud, Power BI Impresses, More -- Redmond Channel Partner

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WPC Day 1 Twitter Highlights: Ballmer Touts Microsoft Cloud, Power BI Impresses, More

Stay up-to-date on the latest news from WPC here.

RCP Editor in Chief Scott Bekker is in Houston this week for Microsoft's Worldwide Partner Conference. He live-Tweeted all through Monday's opening keynote -- the high points are below. Stay up-to-date on all WPC-related news and impressions by following Scott at @scottbekker and bookmarking our WPC 2013 page here.

Hot. Cab smells like urine. Must be in Houston for #wpc13
— Scott Bekker (@scottbekker) July 7, 2013

Welcome to RCP’s live tweeing of #WPC13
— Scott Bekker (@scottbekker) July 8, 2013

Lot of Surfaces in the crowd. Amazing what a $100 deal on RTs and $400 on Pros for attendees will do for partner adoption #WPC13
— Scott Bekker (@scottbekker) July 8, 2013

#WPC13 will be focused on four megatrends: Big data, enterprise social, mobility and cloud
— Scott Bekker (@scottbekker) July 8, 2013

Ballmer just handed out some interesting numbers. Says MSFT has 1 million servers in data centers #WPC13
— Scott Bekker (@scottbekker) July 8, 2013

Ballmer: Only Google has more servers, Amazon has slightly less, and Yahoo and Facebook are the only other 100K+ server players #WPC13
— Scott Bekker (@scottbekker) July 8, 2013

Ballmer: Microsoft is the only company seriously investing in private clouds and hybrid clouds #WPC13
— Scott Bekker (@scottbekker) July 8, 2013

Reller: Office 365 Open expanding to Exchange Online, government and academic offerings #WPC13
— Scott Bekker (@scottbekker) July 8, 2013

Reller announces incentive program called TouchWins for promoting Windows 8 Pro with touchscreens #WPC13
— Scott Bekker (@scottbekker) July 8, 2013

Nadella annouces preview of SaaS management in Windows Azure Active Directory #WPC13
— Scott Bekker (@scottbekker) July 8, 2013

Nadella announces Power BI for Office 365 preview #WPC13 Demo pretty impressive.
— Scott Bekker (@scottbekker) July 8, 2013

Power BI pop music. Best ... demo ... of ... the ... day #wpc13
— Scott Bekker (@scottbekker) July 8, 2013

That’s it for the opening day keynotes for #WPC13. Check http://t.co/N8NsQjKoIU later in the day for in-depth coverage of some of the news.
— Scott Bekker (@scottbekker) July 8, 2013

There won’t be Day 2 keynotes this year. We’ll be back live tweeting the closing keynotes Wednesday #wpc13
— Scott Bekker (@scottbekker) July 8, 2013

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