Microsoft's cloud push: Too little too late on purpose?

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Yet another clueless, ignorant ZDNet blogger

OMG....how clueless do you really have to be at ZDNet?

Microsoft's strength and point of differentiation to all the FUD and ridiculous hype around "the cloud" is to be exactly in the Software PLUS Services space.

What the hell does this stupid statement mean - "Why then is Microsoft tepid in its march to cloud? Why is it ?software plus services,? not just services? Why would such productivity improvements that clouds afford ? at a time when economic conditions demand rapid transformational advances ? be dribbled out as Microsoft has done this week at its Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles? What exactly is Microsoft waiting for?"

"Productivity improvements that clouds afford." WTF? What happens to my productivity when the cloud isn't available? I can collaborate real-time with anybody, anywhere in the world right now and I do that because of Software plus Services, not services alone. Is the cloud going to run my PC, Xbox, mobile phone or core critical applications in the enterprise or point of sale in a store? I doubt it..so what a stupid statement.

"What exactly is Microsoft waiting for?" WTF? Ray Ozzie has completely transformed Microsoft and the way they are investing R&D, innovation and thinking and unless you were on another planet at PDC it is revolutionary. Just look at the abstract possibilities of data synchronisation with Live Mesh and Azure, Oslo and more. The real productivity story here is how much shift will be possible to developers away from traditional IT Professional managers and the ability for small and medium business to access the same or similar resources as enterprises.

"Most of us observers expected Microsoft to move to the cloud now, based on the success of Amazon Web Services and Google." WTF? Success??? Last time I checked, NPR said less than 0.5% of people were using productivity apps in the cloud and 78% of people had never heard of them. You must have a pretty low bar for "success" if you say both Amazon Web Services and Google are successful.

And this paragraph really takes the cake - "My cynical side says that Microsoft wants to accomplish two things with its Azure initiatives. One, to suck the oxygen out of the cloud market (get it, Azure ? no oxygen) and slow the pace of innovation and investment around clouds and cloud ecologies. And two, to make sure the ?software plus services? transition comes slower than the market demand might otherwise enjoy." WTF? I mean seriously, cmon. The whole uptake of services and integration with software is going to rapidly increase with Azure, Live, Mesh, Oslo because the Microsoft ecosystem is the primary ecosystem in enterprise and business and contrary to stupid assertions from bloggers on ZDnet the consumer ecosystem as well.

What do you think ZBox Live is? Xbox Live is a service in the cloud and where would it be without the software on the Xbox? This is Software PLUS Services.

I cannot remember any company the size of Microsoft and with the ecosystem and diversity oif products and technologies of Microsoft who has embraced Software Plus Services so broadly and done so much in such a short period of time.

They have thought about it end to end unlike ignorant bloggers like yourself. The tools for developers, the SDK's, API's, frameworks, blueprints, real world operational issues (Microsoft has run and does run more data centres and online applications and services than anybody), user and role scenarios, I can go on and on and on.

ZDNet, please employ people who even remotely have something worthwhile to say and people who even remotely understand technology because artilces such as this tripe just continue to show that ZDNet is becoming les and less relevant.

"Microsoft, at least based on the tepid pace of the Azure roadmap as laid out this week, is more interested in hedging bets and protecting profits than in spurring on productivity and providing economic catalysts to rich new potential ecologies of online, services-driven businesses. Any continued delay to cloud is the giveaway of Microsoft?s true intentions." Last time I checked Microsoft has shareholders and is obligated to make profits so what a stupid statement. Microsoft helped create the entire ecosystem of the global technology industry today along with Sun, IBM and a couple of others and the industry is what it is because of Microsoft. And you seriously think it doesn't understand the potential of Software Plus Services and doing it right top to bottom and making sure all the pieces are right before slapping perpetual services betas out there and not understanding the impact on the ecosystem? You are truly clueless.

Posted by: Martin_Australia   Posted on: 10/30/08  (Edited: 10/30/2008 @ 03:57) You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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