Well the cloud certainly got another black eye with the Netflix and other services going down briefly (not Microsoft’s fault by the way). But the newsworthiness of Netflix having a service outage does point to the importance of the cloud and devices. I am on vacation at a resort in the middle of no where in northern California. There is no cell service and limited sms access, but there is WiFi. As a result, I was able to get my Netflix fix along with making a few calls via Skype and the WiFi on my cellphone. Nice. Nothing really special, but just how does C++ and DirectX fit into this model.
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