Continuing the Jason Webster WPC braindump, we bring you Part II.

1. Microsoft Windows 8.1
<ul>
	<li>The Start Button is Back!</li>
	<li>Customizable Tiles that persist seamlessly across all devices</li>
</ul>
2. Outlook is coming for Surface RT

3. Google and Microsoft have the only real agile infrastructure.  Experience in building robust search engine products have given them the edge against Amazon Web Services.  Amazon Web Services requires a lot more work in the background to give the appearance of Agility.

4. Microsoft Acquisition StorSimple (<a href="http://storsimple.com">http://storsimple.com</a>) is allowing customers to have a “bottomless pit” of resources by seamlessly tiering data between private cloud and public cloud locations.

5. Big Data and the “Internet of Things” continuing to impact lives in positive ways.  There are 15 billion “things” connected to the internet.  The vast majority of them are sensor devices collecting data.  The Azure Data Marketplace allows organizations to consume this data and build more intelligent business applications.

6. Bing has captured 33% of the US search market and their decision engine ranks #1 in search relevance over Google.

7. SharePoint and Yammer are used in over 400 of the Fortune 500 organizations.