Chicago MTC
A September 17th article by Shane ONeil’s Eye on Microsoft blog talks about the use of Touch technologies at the Chicago center for presentations:
Microsoft Technology Centers Use Touch to Teach Microsoft's Chicago tech center is using giant touch screens to inform customers on SharePoint and other Microsoft products. How does Microsoft reel in and keep those big corporate customers? One way is the company's technology centers — which are pre-sales facilities located in major cities such as New York, Boston, Paris, Moscow and Tokyo. Within these learning centers, which host 50,000 visitors each year at 22 facilities around the world, Microsoft experts demo its enterprise software products such as SharePoint, Dynamics CRM and Office Communications Server for customers or potential customers. The end goal is to win new business, but along the way learning center experts also do proof of concept workshops, discuss software architecture design and break down how Microsoft software meets business needs and bottom lines …
Microsoft Technology Centers Use Touch to Teach Microsoft's Chicago tech center is using giant touch screens to inform customers on SharePoint and other Microsoft products.
How does Microsoft reel in and keep those big corporate customers? One way is the company's technology centers — which are pre-sales facilities located in major cities such as New York, Boston, Paris, Moscow and Tokyo.
Within these learning centers, which host 50,000 visitors each year at 22 facilities around the world, Microsoft experts demo its enterprise software products such as SharePoint, Dynamics CRM and Office Communications Server for customers or potential customers. The end goal is to win new business, but along the way learning center experts also do proof of concept workshops, discuss software architecture design and break down how Microsoft software meets business needs and bottom lines …
(Kevin Gates presenting using Touch technologies)
Read the article at CIO.com