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I expect something big from Microsoft - something really really big.

_grrr 16y ago
If I were Microsoft I would want to be releasing a 'cloud only' device next year, all apps and data on the cloud. That would be pretty big.
- dmix 16y ago
  Except when you make 75% of your revenue off of slow moving IT departments who use complex VPNs and Firewalls.
  - _grrr 16y ago
    Well, different market. I was thinking more of home users.
  - Someone 16y ago
    Slow moving IT departments, by definition, will not move to cheaper alternatives overnight, but they will move eventually. When they do, they better move to your cheaper alternative. When they don't move at all, there always is the rest of the market that might move there. For example, if you buy cloud box, your Internet provider could give you 'free' Office in the cloud, just like they give you 'free' antivirus now. I do not think this is an outrageous prediction. Both Google (Chrome OS) and MS (Office Live) are already moving there. One could even (weakly) argue that iPads and iPhones just cache cloud-based executables; Apple 'only' needs to fix its data storage solution. My bet is that that is what their rumoured new data center is for.
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tocomment 16y ago
I don't understand why you say that. If the last ten years are any indication then nothing big will come from ms.
- Keyframe 16y ago
  Last ten years are indication to me that something big should happen right about now, or else... the spiral from the top down continues. All of the competition aside (across various spectra in competes in), let's just look at Microsoft itself. It's a beast with huge muscles that lost focus. It's numerous heads are biting all over, but with lost focus and strength. It needs to toughen up and straight it's shit together, and now is the time more so than ever.
eps 16y ago
Their service packs are typically very very big. I'm sure there'll be at least one in '11 :)
zavulon 16y ago
I think we would have heard about it by now... I don't think they have nearly the culture of secrecy like Apple's, yet look how far in advance things leak out from there.

_grrr 16y ago

If I were Microsoft I would want to be releasing a 'cloud only' device next year, all apps and data on the cloud. That would be pretty big.

dmix 16y ago
Except when you make 75% of your revenue off of slow moving IT departments who use complex VPNs and Firewalls.
- _grrr 16y ago
  Well, different market. I was thinking more of home users.
- Someone 16y ago
  Slow moving IT departments, by definition, will not move to cheaper alternatives overnight, but they will move eventually. When they do, they better move to your cheaper alternative. When they don't move at all, there always is the rest of the market that might move there. For example, if you buy cloud box, your Internet provider could give you 'free' Office in the cloud, just like they give you 'free' antivirus now. I do not think this is an outrageous prediction. Both Google (Chrome OS) and MS (Office Live) are already moving there. One could even (weakly) argue that iPads and iPhones just cache cloud-based executables; Apple 'only' needs to fix its data storage solution. My bet is that that is what their rumoured new data center is for.

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tocomment 16y ago

I don't understand why you say that. If the last ten years are any indication then nothing big will come from ms.

Keyframe 16y ago
Last ten years are indication to me that something big should happen right about now, or else... the spiral from the top down continues. All of the competition aside (across various spectra in competes in), let's just look at Microsoft itself. It's a beast with huge muscles that lost focus. It's numerous heads are biting all over, but with lost focus and strength. It needs to toughen up and straight it's shit together, and now is the time more so than ever.

eps 16y ago

Their service packs are typically very very big. I'm sure there'll be at least one in '11 :)

zavulon 16y ago

I think we would have heard about it by now... I don't think they have nearly the culture of secrecy like Apple's, yet look how far in advance things leak out from there.