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Losing over $2,000,000,000 per year...
Hey Microsoft, Get Out of the Cloud
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| Why isn't Microsoft trying to derail cloud
| computing? That's what I would be doing it its
| position. It should think about killing
| Hotmail on a whim and saying, "there's your
| cloud computing. Look what happened!" That,
| ultimately, is the real issue with the cloud.
| It's not like your shrink wrapped software or
| even a stand alone download software package,
| which you essentially own and control. What
| would happen if Microsoft killed Hotmail? What
| would users do?
|
| [...]
|
| From the beginning Microsoft was a company
| that enabled the individual PC user. Now it
| talks about the cloud like everyone else.
| Microsoft really needs to rethink its
| approach.
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http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2358946,00.asp
Taxpayers-sponsored:
Consumers led enterprise to the cloud
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| During a parliament-sponsored debate in
| Westminster this morning, Stephen McGibbon,
| regional technology officer for Microsoft in
| Europe, claimed the cloud is now the trend on
| everyone's lips because of the wide adoption
| in the consumer market.
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http://www.itpro.co.uk/620332/consumers-led-enterprise-to-the-cloud
SMBs see 30% rise in revenue from cloud computing
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| In a new Microsoft survey, SMB organisations
| are linking rises in revenue to the use of
| cloud-based managed services. Services such as
| e-mail and website hosting are proving
| increasingly popular among small business
| owners as they look to increase productivity
| without increasing overheads.
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http://www.itp.net/579231-smbs-see-30-rise-in-revenue-from-cloud-computing
No liability?
Cloud providers shrug off liability for security
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| Businesses signing up for standard cloud
| services should not expect the provider to
| accept liability for data breaches and other
| security incidents, Microsoft and others have
| said.
|
| At a Cloud Law Summit in London on Wednesday,
| Microsoft's head of legal, Dervish Tayyip,
| said the company would not provide financial
| guarantees against data-protection issues on
| cloud contracts.
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http://news.zdnet.co.uk/itmanagement/0,1000000308,40037148,00.htm
More Intel collusion? Collude much?
Intel and Microsoft Tap FedScoop for Online Cloud Computing Campaign
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| Today, FedScoop announced that Intel and
| Microsoft will be sponsoring an educational
| campaign focused on the present and future
| possibilities of cloud computing called,
| "Minds in the Cloud." Each week, for 25 weeks,
| new High Definition (HD) interviews of
| influential technologists from the government,
| non-profit, and private sectors discussing
| their views on the importance of the cloud
| will be posted to mindsinthecloud.org.
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http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/intel-and-microsoft-tap-fedscoop-for-online-cloud-computing-campaign-83870597.html
Recent:
Cloud over the IT world in 2010? â Survey results & what next for Windows?
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| So what of Windows? Could its closed source
| nature be eventually the death of it? Quite
| possibly, one only has to look at the wealth
| of FOSS projects that are providing
| alternative solutions to many of Microsoft
| products. Even Microsoft themselves are
| alleged to use GPL code (and allegedly violate
| it albeit by a third party)
|
| Remember Mr Ballmerâs cancer comment in
| regards to Linux?
|
| Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in
| an intellectual property sense to
| everything it touches
|
| But then should we really pay any attention to
| him? he was alleged afterall to also say that
| Google was a house of cards and iPhone had no
| chance of getting a significant market share.
| I bring this up since GoogleOS is built on
| Linux so its rather relevant that the first
| âmainstreamâ steps of this concept are being
| taken by that which Mr Ballmer seems to have a
| low opinion of. Talking of cancer and IP, I
| wonder if he would like to retract that since
| Microsoft China are alleged to have taken code
| from another companies product and attempted
| to use it as their own. For more information
| on this, read the article here.
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http://openbytes.wordpress.com/2009/12/26/cloud-over-the-it-world-in-2010-survey-results-what-next-for-windows/
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