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The Lighter Side of Symantec: Page 2 of 3

Safely installed behind his massive onstage desk, Trilling started bantering with his stage manager and band, even poking fun at the massive broadcast screens providing conference information for attendees.

“There’s a lot of text here, keep scrolling, keep scrolling,” he said. “Have a piece of fruit so that you don’t get scurvy.”

The Yale and MIT grad actually spent 10 years as a stand-up comedian when he was younger, although it seems unlikely that his previous material will be making an appearance at Symantec Vision.

All credit to Symantec, though -- there was not a PowerPoint presentation in sight during the first couple of hours of the show, a welcome change from the usual slideware overload that accompanies this type of gathering.

Whether Steve Trilling leaves his day job, though, is another matter altogether.