Ballmer Teases Software-Plus-Services in '07 168
Robert writes with a link to a CBR article hinting that Microsoft's vision of software-plus-services may begin to form this year. The idea is that an online version of Windows, plus a 'cloud' of related services and collaboration software, will allow a user to access their content from anywhere and (theoretically) be more productive. "In broad strokes,
that vision is to build a set of services for servers, clients and mobile devices in the
Internet cloud, with a new model of computation and user interface. Ballmer seemed to suggest
the first of these services would launch, in some form, later this year. Underpinning these services would be a "cloud platform," which is the Windows Live Core architecture the company is working on. 'We are in the process today of building out a service platform in the cloud,' Ballmer said. 'We're building out a service-based infrastructure, not server by server but a new management model, a new device model, new storage, networking, computational model from the get-go.'"
Ballmer's response to Google (Score:5, Funny)
Mosquitos (Score:3, Funny)
2007 huh? (Score:5, Funny)
Stop with the fucking clouds already! (Score:5, Funny)
I suppose it's an apt term. Something that seems big and impressive from a long way away but if you get up close you see it's nothing more than vapour, completely intangible.
And I just thought up a GREAT name for it... (Score:4, Funny)
My sources tell me (Score:3, Funny)
When you're smoking what Steve and Bill are (Score:4, Funny)
truth in advertising (Score:3, Funny)
So he's saying they're working on vapor?
Now that's honesty.
Oblig funny (Score:3, Funny)
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3) Profit!
Re:Ballmer's response to Google (Score:2, Funny)