TechEd Drills Down to Basics

摘要

Microsoft trained its focus on concrete challenges facing IT at its TechEd 2004 conference last week, rolling out products designed to enhance security, productivity, and integration. Emphasizing the role of the application developer in his opening keynote address, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer discussed the company's broad vision for its products and tools. "We do really think about our tools broadly and our products broadly as part of an application development platform," Ballmer said. "Each and every one of the products that we build isn't just an application, it also is an extensible piece of software that ― if we give you the right capability ― you can extend."