Microsoft in ‘Cloud’ Computing: The Empire Strikes Back?

 

New York Times - their subtitle, not mine :)

The article discusses the forthcoming Windows Live releases and they chat with Brian Hall who I'm meeting up with on Wednesday. Any questions you want me to put to him? :)

Markoff also references the 1990's Netscape era and draws comparisons. I've been drawing my own comparisons to that internally recently and I think it's more like the Internet Tidal Wave memo. Perhaps not as dramatic but make no mistake, there are some profound changes afoot. Here is howRay Ozzie explained it during the Financial Analyst Meeting:

"this transformation from software to software plus services, is a very, very big deal for our company. It'll be a very critical aspect of all of our offerings over the next few years."

I can tell the interest level is on the up due to press calls I've had over the last week and the amount of slide decks, whitepapers and emails I have on my PC about this. Exciting times.

Hat tip to frankarr

Technorati Tags: software + services , ozzie , frankarr , netscape , markoff

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  • Anonymous
    September 03, 2007
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  • Anonymous
    September 03, 2007
    Steve, You ask if we have any questions for Brian Hall. Well yes, I have a few. Read here: http://jamiethomson.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!550F681DAD532637!1743.entry Regards Jamie Thomson

  • Anonymous
    September 03, 2007
    Philip couldn't agree more and it seems Google, Salesforce and others agree wiht their recent forays in to offline/rich client

  • Anonymous
    September 03, 2007
    Steve has a nice post: New York Times - their subtitle, not mine :) The article discusses the forthcoming...

  • Anonymous
    September 03, 2007
    it's interesting to see their photo at the top of the article.  Microsoft is the dark storm cloud and Google is the ray of sunshine... A little naive perhaps? James

  • Anonymous
    September 10, 2007
    Hey Steve, How'd your meeting with Brian Hall go? N.B. I aint subscribing to your comments so tell us in a new blog entry :) -Jamie

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