“Windows Cloud” in four weeks.. ??
Well I never thought I would blog about this. (Who am I kidding ? )atleast not now. We have been hearing a lot of cacophony from the Microsoft Stable about Surface Computing and Microsoft’s very own Microsoft Surface. According to these articles in The Register & OSNews Microsoft did confirm the release of Windows Could by the end of this month (Oct ’2008).
In an interesting development to the story Microsoft Boss Steve Ballmer (and yeah I’m laughing too) of Microsoft was heard saying
- “We need a new operating system designed for the cloud and we will introduce one in about four weeks, we’ll even have a name to give you by then. But let’s just call it for the purposes of today ’Windows Cloud’”
- “Just like Windows Server looked a lot like Windows but with new properties, new characteristics and new features, so will Windows Cloud look a lot like Windows Server.”
- “We’re not driving an agenda towards being service providers but we’ve gotta build a service that is Windows in the cloud,”
- “If you talk to Google they’ll say it’s thin client computing but then they’ll issue a new browser that’s basically a big fat operating system designed to compete with Windows but running on top of it”
- “The last thing we want is for somebody else to obsolete us, if we’re gonna get obseleted we better do it to ourselves.”
I personally did feel that a Cloud Computing based OS would be rolled out first by Google and how wrong was I ?.. err.. too early to say.
And how often does a Microsoft related article appear on Google Blogscoped ?
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