WPC Day 2 Twitter Highlights: Spotlight on Windows Phone 8 and Windows Server 2012 -- Redmond Channel Partner

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WPC Day 2 Twitter Highlights: Spotlight on Windows Phone 8 and Windows Server 2012

Tuesday's Day 2 keynote was full of announcements, and Scott was there to live-Tweet them all. Follow him at @scottbekker, and check out our WPC page here for the latest news from Toronto.

Day 2 keynotes underway at #wpc12
— Scott Bekker (@scottbekker) July 10, 2012

Annual parade of Microsoft Partner of the Year award winners on stagercpmag.com/blogs/scott-be…
— Scott Bekker (@scottbekker) July 10, 2012

Nadella: Microsoft 'will always be partner led." #wpc12
— Scott Bekker (@scottbekker) July 10, 2012

Microsoft calls the combo of Windows Azure, Windows Server 2012 and System Center the 'ultimate cloud OS' #wpc12
— Scott Bekker (@scottbekker) July 10, 2012

Nadella: GA of Windows Server 2012 is going to be September. It's going to RTM in August.
— Scott Bekker (@scottbekker) July 10, 2012

Nadella announces customer technical preview of high-density website hostingon Windows Server #wpc12
— Scott Bekker (@scottbekker) July 10, 2012

Nadella also announces CTPs of vm hosting services and unified management portal services on Windows Server #wpc12
— Scott Bekker (@scottbekker) July 10, 2012

Nadella launches 'Switch to Hyper-V.' Goal to get customers off VMware. Early adopter partners with wins are FyrSoft and Avanade #wpc12
— Scott Bekker (@scottbekker) July 10, 2012

Thom Gruhler, CVP, Windows Phone Marketing, takes the #wpc12 stage. Been at Microsoft 90 days.
— Scott Bekker (@scottbekker) July 10, 2012

Gruhler: 'Smart phone users don't know about Windows Phone, and that's a problem we're going to fix.' #wpc12
— Scott Bekker (@scottbekker) July 10, 2012

Huge applause for Windows Phone 8 video at #wpc12
— Scott Bekker (@scottbekker) July 10, 2012

Gruhler: 'Windows Phone 8 is business ready' #wpc12
— Scott Bekker (@scottbekker) July 10, 2012

Gruhler promises deeper Windows Phone 8 integration with Exchange, Sharepoint and Lync #wpc12
— Scott Bekker (@scottbekker) July 10, 2012

Gruhler: Nokia, Huawei, Samsung and HTC to make Windows Phone 8 devices #wpc12
— Scott Bekker (@scottbekker) July 10, 2012

Microsoft to launch Windows Phone 8 in 50 languages #wpc12
— Scott Bekker (@scottbekker) July 10, 2012

Pretty cool Microsoft Research demo. They did a 3D scan of Jon Roskill with Kinect and then made a bust of him from a 3D printer #wpc12
— Scott Bekker (@scottbekker) July 10, 2012

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Posted by Scott Bekker on July 10, 2012 at 11:58 AM

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