Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and CFO Chris Liddell are hosting a strategic update conference with analysts and investors today in order to give an outlook (any and all outlooks, we hope) for the world's largest software company. As always, we're on the beat and the below liveblog will include live coverage as it happens from the webcast. With that, here we go!Note: All times below are in EST.
4:00pm -- waiting for the webcast to start. Microsoft's technical gurus should have the webcast underway shortly.
4:03pm -- still waiting...this music is nice but bad, bad quality sounds. Who chooses this?
4:07pm -- wow, Microsoft is late (still waiting). I guess they are trying to launch Vista's successor, eh?
4:10pm -- while the analysts are probably munching popcorn in their offices, we're sitting here twiddling thumbs. Dee-dee-doo-dah
4:13pm -- finally -- and only 13 minutes late. We're starting.
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