• Microsoft’s key mission – to cloud optimise every business
• This year was the biggest WPC yet, with over 15,000 attendees from 130 countries
• 95% of Microsoft revenue is driven through partners 
• Windows 7 is Microsoft's fastest selling operating system in history 
• 50,000 Office 365 trial sign ups since launch - a rate of one company every 25 seconds 
• Big opportunity and focus on Lync – antecipated to be Microsoft's next ‘billion dollar opportunity’
• Pinpoint will be a key way for customers to find relevant partners 

• The Microsoft Partner Ecosystem has enormous scope and impact - there are 640,000 partners with 15 million employees 
• 58% of Microsoft partners are currently working with the Cloud 
• In the last year alone there were 350 million PCs sold 
• Bing - new social features, 142% increase on last year and biggest use in USA (27% market share)
• Windows 7 - fastest selling operating system in history - more than 400 million Windows 7 licenses have been sold in less than 2 years 
• Windows 8 preview - 'the path to Windows 8 starts with Windows 7'
• Windows Phone - Gartner predicts Windows Phone will be number 2 in market by 2015
• Windows Intune - public beta of next release announced - access to latest version of Windows plus PC management and security in the Cloud
• Microsoft Dynamics - 20% compound annual growth in this space 
• Office 365 - 50,000 organisations onto trials since launch (June) - trial it here
• Monday highlights news announcement

• WPC 2011 so big that Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa named it 'Microsoft Partner Week' in LA
• Emphasis on Microsoft's uniquely comprehensive investments in Cloud Computing, from building Cloud datacentres to delivering finished Cloud services
• Microsoft's mission - to cloud-optimise every business 
• Microsoft strategy - spanning private and public Clouds with a common set of tools for management, identity, virtualisation, and development
• Hybrid IT - freedom of movement across public and private Clouds is unique to Microsoft and reflects "the realities of hybrid IT, which is the reality customers will demand from us as an ecosystem"
• Microsoft Office - one billion PCs around the world are running Office, with Office 2010 selling a copy every second and being deployed at 5x the rate of Office 2007
• Lync - Windows Phone 7 and Xbox integration are on the horizon
• Microsoft Dynamics CRM - more than 2 million users worldwide and has enjoyed 27 quarters of double-digit growth. Update due later in 2011 to include Office 365 and enhanced social collaboration capabilities
• Huge opportunity in a unified ecosystem of PCs, TVs, phones and other devices such as slates and tablets
• Tuesday highlights news announcement

• Lync set to become Microsoft's new 'billion-dollar opportunity'
• Azure - there are 40,000 Azure customers and 30,000 partners trained on Azure
• In FY11 Microsoft's Research and Development investment was $9b
• Richard Branson closed the keynote, with his perspective as one of the world's most successful entrepreneurs, also available on his book "Screw it, lets do it"
• Wednesday highlights news announcement

Thursday - UK session

• The future is in unified technology, creating great experiences across devices, applications and services 
• It’s a hybrid world with huge opportunity for customers to take advantage of the Cloud