WPC Day 3 Twitter Highlights: Surface as a 'Hero' Platform, WPC 2014 Location, More -- Redmond Channel Partner

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WPC Day 3 Twitter Highlights: Surface as a 'Hero' Platform, WPC 2014 Location, More

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

Once again, Scott live-Tweeted his way through today's Worldwide Partner Conference keynote, which featured the always-entertaining Kevin Turner, Microsoft COO. Follow Scott @scottbekker and visit our WPC 2013 portal page here to stay on top of all the conference happenings.

Microsoft has sold over 16K+ #Surface units at #WPC13 already
— Scott Bekker (@scottbekker) July 10, 2013

Kevin Turner time #wpc13
— Scott Bekker (@scottbekker) July 10, 2013

KT defines #Surface as a ‘hero platform’ #WPC13
— Scott Bekker (@scottbekker) July 10, 2013

KT tells partners they’re going to care about Haswell because of fanless device capabilities #WPC13
— Scott Bekker (@scottbekker) July 10, 2013

KT acknowledges Google is a ‘great competitor’ in the search space #WPC13 Invective coming later?
— Scott Bekker (@scottbekker) July 10, 2013

Ahh here it is. KT get in a ‘Scroogled’ dig and positions Microsoft as taking high road on browser privacy #wpc13
— Scott Bekker (@scottbekker) July 10, 2013

KT’s privacy story for Microsoft against Google would work better if it weren’t for PRISM #wpc13 http://t.co/ylhLIAtnHZ
— Scott Bekker (@scottbekker) July 10, 2013

Turner repeats Windows Phone is 3rd theme: ‘Now I’m going to be honest. We’re a distant third. But we’re going to keep fighting.’ #WPC13
— Scott Bekker (@scottbekker) July 10, 2013

Turner: ‘We’re finding our rhythm in phones.’ #WPC13
— Scott Bekker (@scottbekker) July 10, 2013

Turner quotes Larry Ellison on Salesforce.com: Force.com the roach motel of cloud services #WPC13
— Scott Bekker (@scottbekker) July 10, 2013

Turner says almost 25% of the install base still needs to move from XP befoe April 8 #WPC13
— Scott Bekker (@scottbekker) July 10, 2013

Jon Roskill #WPC14 to be in Washington, D.C. Repeating 2010 location.
— Scott Bekker (@scottbekker) July 10, 2013

Microsoft is moving the 2014 show to 3rd week in July rather than the traditional second. Guessing has to do with timing of July 4. #WPC13

— Scott Bekker (@scottbekker) July 10, 2013

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