Microsoft's Worldwide Partners Conference starts Monday with a speech from Chief Executive Steve Ballmer. I will be tapping some live notes here while watching the webcast starting at 9 a.m. The webcast is at www.digitalwpc.com if you want to watch along. If you want to follow along on Twitter, the hashtag is #WPC11.
To find out what WPC is all about, check out our earlier blog post on WPC 2011.
9:11 a.m. Microsoft is showing a video of the aftermath of the Japanese tsunami.
9:15 a.m. A Japanese dance troupe has taken the stage. I don't know their name, but they are dressed like salary men. The WPC organizers are pretty savvy about riffing off natural disasters. In 2009, the organizers took the conference to New Orleans, where they had the music collective Playing for Change perform on stage.
9:18 a.m. If you're not watching this video, imagine footage of the "Matrix."
9:19 a.m. The band was World Order. They are done. Microsoft Corporate Vice President Jon Roskill is now on stage. He asked all the Japanese partners in Staples Center to stand and be recognized. And he's recapping the volunteer day Microsoft held Sunday at the start of Worldwide Partners Conference.
9:22 a.m. Jon Roskill has shaved his beard since a video he posted Sunday morning.
9:24 a.m. There are 12,000 people at WPC this week, Roskill said, representing 640,000 partner companies who employ 15 million people. "Winning together is the theme of WPC 2011. Winning together and changing the world," he said.
9:27 a.m. "When I say VmWare service providers, you say, 'Ssssssssss,' " Roskill said, talking about a partner company winning a Chinese government contract against VmWare.
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