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Here comes the "Windows Cloud"
- st3fan 18y agoMost overhyped word of 2008: 'The Cloud'
- dmix 18y agoThere was demand and a chance to profit so they made a partnership. I wouldn't go as far as saying theres an underlying strategy behind it. Does Microsoft really need a 3rd party data center to enter "the cloud"?
- jodrellblank 18y agoTo some extent they are already in the cloud - they offer hosted services, Windows Live file hosting, hotmail, CRM Live; they have lots of hosted files so they must deal with CDNs. So, why don't they avoid Amazon and do "hosted Windows servers" themselves?
- jodrellblank 18y agoWhence "Windows Silver Lining"?
- andreyf 18y agoYay! Ballmer learned a new buzzword! I wonder if the "OS in the cloud" gets it as much as GMail did, you know, four and a half years ago...
- zandorg 18y agoI wonder what would happen if Microsoft made Windows like Seti@Home, by linking up unused CPU cycles across the Internet. With say 10 million machines chugging and exchanging data, they'd wipe the floor with Google in terms of CPU power.
- bbgm 18y agoExcept that unused cycles don't work in production settings. Pharma companies tried doing that for discovery programs back in the day and found that getting a cluster was much more effective. Using spare desktop cycles is great for low-level data collection, but you need to analyze that data and when you have deadlines you need much more control of availability and capacity