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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. I just read about one of their new protocols... by Starteck81 · · Score: -1, Redundant

    It was called TCP/IP/OFC. It's Transmission Control Protocol/ Internet Protocol/ On Flying Chairs.

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    "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed H
  2. They'll be no Cloud Platform for Jim Black by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    See why at Globaltics

  3. Who cares? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Does anyone with a clue still use Microsoft garbage. Ballmer should stick to chair throwing and other activities befitting of a Neanderthal running a dinosaur company.