Ballmer will open the annual Microsoft Tech-Ed conference in Eilat.
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer will visit Israel on May 4, 2004. Ballmer will make the opening address at Microsoft’s (Nasdaq: MSFT) annual Tech-Ed conference in Eilat. 1,500 Israeli computer industry leaders are expected to attend the conference, which will serve as a platform for presenting Microsoft’s future technologies. The conference is being held for the fourth straight year. Ballmer will unveil Microsoft’s technological road map for the coming years, and the ways in which it will be applied with the company’s partners and the business sector.
Ballmer will also meet with government and senior economic leaders. The planning of his visit, part of a tour of European countries, began at the end of the Tech-Ed 2003 event eight months ago. This year’s event was postponed from February-March because of the visit. On his first visit to Israel in 1999, Ballmer announced that Microsoft would take part in the “computer for every child” project, which has been made a national project, in cooperation with the government and addition business concerns. Ballmer’s support for the project enabled Microsoft Israel to contribute Microsoft Office and Microsoft Windows software for the 13,000 computers so far distributed to needy families around Israel. Microsoft recently promised to contribute an additional 20,000 software units for the project, to be distributed over the next few years.
Published by Globes [online] - www.globes.co.il - on January 19, 2004