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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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This sounds like vapourware to me.
they have an HTML version of the Blue Screen Of Death.
It seems so obvious now.
I don't even know if that was sarcasm.
Our bugs are smarter than your test scripts.
Somehow, putting the word "vista" in the same sentence as "succeed", for whatever reason, just seems plain wrong.
My web domain.
sounds like Airborne viruses.
as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in labored puns about windows and clouds and nobody had the sense to silence them.
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It's Windows Vaporware. It's a dessert wax and a floor topping. It's any marketing spin at all that they think might put people off competitors' products.
Anyone can talk up a hand of five aces. Producing it when called is a bit harder.
Perhaps it will have $DATABASE_FILESYSTEM!
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This is the pre-announcement to announce an announcement. You'll have to wait for the actual announcement to find out what the hell it is.
Developers: We can use your help.
No, the Falling Blue Sky Of Death.
Project/Code Name?
Candidates:
Tacoma
Wincoma
GLAUcoma
Cloudy
Misty
TearDrop
Charmin
Previously: "Linux... Toward the Sunrise..." Now: "Linux... Toward the-- No, now, part of Every Sunrise"
...lacks silver lining.
Project/Code Name?
Since this is Slashdot, how about...
"Insensitive Cloud"
Momentarily, the need for the construction of new light will no longer exist.
Clouds ARE insensitive, you clo .... (struck by lightening, vaporized...)
Previously: "Linux... Toward the Sunrise..." Now: "Linux... Toward the-- No, now, part of Every Sunrise"
"Blue screens, shinning on me.......Nothing but blues screens do I see....."
Be gone from my sight or prepare to feel my flaming wraith!
Because it will take at least seven standard PCs to boot the next version of Windows.
Some mornings it's hardly worth chewing through the restraints to get out of bed.
This windows cloud computing stuff is already used to send millions of emails a day and so on. The product itself really isn't news, the only news is that Ballmer is finally giving it a product name so we can talk about it more effectively in the media.
For a list of computers participating in the Windows Cloud, go here and request an rsync feed for the XBL.
Do daemons dream of electric sleep()?
No, it has one
I would have voted for "Windows Nimbus."
This should be the next poll.
I think there was a preview in the 98 start up screen. Windows on a cloud and everything. If they are bringing it back it will be more amazing than the massive hint they gave in the XP default background.
Cloud computing OS, jumpin' jehosaphat, vapour ware becomes a reality, the mind boggles, a vapour OS, to run vapour ware applications all on vapour ware hardware ;D.
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