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Ballmer Teases Software-Plus-Services in '07

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the my-year-is-complete dept.

Robert writes with a link to a CBR article hinting that Microsoft's vision of software-plus-services may begin to form this year. The idea is that an online version of Windows, plus a 'cloud' of related services and collaboration software, will allow a user to access their content from anywhere and (theoretically) be more productive. "In broad strokes, that vision is to build a set of services for servers, clients and mobile devices in the Internet cloud, with a new model of computation and user interface. Ballmer seemed to suggest the first of these services would launch, in some form, later this year. Underpinning these services would be a "cloud platform," which is the Windows Live Core architecture the company is working on. 'We are in the process today of building out a service platform in the cloud,' Ballmer said. 'We're building out a service-based infrastructure, not server by server but a new management model, a new device model, new storage, networking, computational model from the get-go.'"

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  1. Ballmer's response to Google by nanosquid · · Score: 4, Funny

    Monkey see, monkey do, monkey dance.

    1. Re:Ballmer's response to Google by martinlp · · Score: 2, Funny

      "Monkey see, monkey do, monkey dance." Monkey throw chair

  2. Mosquitos by sprior · · Score: 3, Funny

    Think cloud of mosquitos, all annoying you and trying to suck you dry...

  3. 2007 huh? by $RANDOMLUSER · · Score: 4, Funny

    OK, I'll hold my breath, because Microsoft always ships on schedule.

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  4. Stop with the fucking clouds already! by LighterShadeOfBlack · · Score: 5, Funny

    Seriously, what's up with all the clouds Ballmer?

    I suppose it's an apt term. Something that seems big and impressive from a long way away but if you get up close you see it's nothing more than vapour, completely intangible.

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  5. And I just thought up a GREAT name for it... by dpbsmith · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...they could call this bold new idea ".NET"

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  6. My sources tell me by noewun · · Score: 2, Funny

    Microsoft is hard at work on the DBSOD, the Distributed Blue Screen of Death. Now you can freeze any machine, anywhere in the world!

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  7. When you're smoking what Steve and Bill are by blueZ3 · · Score: 3, Funny

    you're bound to imagine services "in the cloud"

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  8. truth in advertising by opencity · · Score: 2, Funny

    Isn't a cloud water vapor?
    So he's saying they're working on vapor?
    Now that's honesty.

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  9. Oblig funny by Twanfox · · Score: 2, Funny

    1) Make announcement of a revolutionary new Operating System
    2) ... Internet Cloud ...
    3) Profit!