Yesterday Steve Ballmer gave a presentation at the Financial Analyst Meeting 2007 to kick off FY08. In his words "at this meeting at this time of year, what we really try to reflect on is shareholder value, and growth in shareholder value, and all that's going on with that." To me that means that this will be a lot of marketing fluff. :) 

This was actually a pretty interesting speech, here are some of the highlights of his speech:

• In the last 5 years:
• Have nearly doubled profit and revenue.
• Acquired over 80 companies
• Invested ~$30 billion in R&D
• Returned over $100 billion in share buybacks and dividends
• In the next 12 months there were be 1 billion installed Windows PCs.
• "25 to 40% of all people who obtain a Ph.D. in the US will have interned at Microsoft during the PH.D program. (25-40%... pretty large range huh???)

At the end of the speech he ends it with the money shot, the list of products that will be released in around the next 12 months (Where is Exchange 2007 SP1!?!)

FY08 looks like it is going to be interesting!