Microsoft To Release Cloud-Oriented Windows OS

CWmike writes "Within a month, Microsoft will unveil what CEO Steve Ballmer called 'Windows Cloud.' The operating system, which will likely have a different name, is intended for developers writing cloud-computing applications, said Ballmer, who spoke to an auditorium of IT managers at a Microsoft-sponsored conference in London. Ballmer was short on details, saying more information would spoil the announcement. Windows Cloud is a separate project from Windows 7, the operating system that Microsoft is developing to succeed Windows Vista."

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Re:Cloud computing

[MightyMartian]

You'd think remote file stores and databases had never existed the way people talk about distributed computing. "Oooh, store your data on our server, it's sooooooo revolutionary!!!!"

Why is it that everything that some demented toad like Ballmer or some marketing type claims is new technology is something that's been known to the computer science community for decades, and probably has several antecedents that date back almost that far?