Silver Cloud in the Future for Microsoft October 2, 2008
Posted by mycto in Browsers, Business Productivity, Infrastructure, operating systems.Tags: Google, Microsoft, Steve Ballmer, the cloud
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Did you hear the one about the guy from Microsoft, the guy from Google and the priest? Me neither.
What I did hear today was a lot about Microsoft getting into “the cloud”. What is this cloud and what magic does it perform you ask?
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The cloud is just a fancy phrase that describes the process where computers that are not at your desk do the majority of crunching / processing and you look at and edit this data on your pc through your browser.
If you look at your computer desktop you probably have a bunch of programs or applications that do things like word processing or spreadsheets or games. The future, will see the significant majority of all human interaction with data in “the cloud” be it on a desktop, a game console (think XBOX) or your phone.
Anyway, Steve Ballmer, Microsoft’s excitable CEO proclaimed today that Microsoft will be working on a version of an operating system (OS) that is geared for cloud computing. I believe I predict what this looks like already: strip out everything from the current version of Vista and just present users with an Internet Explorer button. CLICK. BLAM. INTERNET.
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What Microsoft really needs is an easy to use online document editing and managing system and storage system. Wait–Google has one of those. Hmmmm. What would a company look like that was made out of these two entities?
