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| What is this "Windows Cloud"? |
A quick mention made by Steve Ballmer last Wednesday is generating a lot of intrigue and interest: a pre-announcement of something that Microsoft's CEO named Windows Cloud, which would be designed for programmers writing cloud computing applications, and who would be unveiled by the Company within one month. The details, ComputerWorld or Slashdot.
The most common reaction is skepticism. Can Microsoft, the company that showed itself unable to react to the arrival of ultraportable more than resurrecting an eight-year old Windows XP, suddenly put on the market a light and cloud-oriented operating system? That a product whose launch is expected for a month does not yet have a definitive name, and assuming a change of strategy so important did not know anything so far does not seem the usual style of Microsoft. According to Ballmer,
"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's "Windows Cloud." (...) We're not driving an agenda towards being service providers but we've gotta build a service that's Windows in the cloud "The ultra-portable ultra-portable market boom, already qualified as a "netbook revolution" and with expected sales of two hundred million units by 2013 (the same size as the entire market predicted for conventional laptops), could be pushing Microsoft to change Its habitually slow pace of development for something more reactive, able to counteract a Google whose latest move, the launch of Chrome, clearly see what we discussed at the time: a threat designed to compete with Windows (incidentally, thanks to All those who in those days came to "explain me kindly" in the comments the concept of operating system, as if I, who had been teaching Information Systems for eighteen years, did not know ... should be the first time I'm glad to agree In my appreciations nothing less than with Steve Ballmer :-)
"If you talk to Google they'll say it's thin client computing but then they'll issue a new browser that's basically the big fat operating system designed to compete with Windows, but running on top of it"Without a doubt, a powerful reason to try to dynamize the portfolio of Microsoft products by putting on the table something more than the old XP, which contrasts with the fact of being an environment known to many, the evidence of being a system clearly not designed, for Orientation and philosophy, for the characteristics of an ultraportable. Will Microsoft be able to give a response as quick and interesting as what Ballmer has seemed to imply, and get out of the sleeve a light and work-oriented web-based operating system, or we'll be simply talking about something as cloud-like as Vaporware
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