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 Send to email | Cloud may squeeze margins, says Microsoft exec in General |  By Rough Ty
el 19-May-2008 | Microsoft expects corporate customers to accelerate their shift to the cloud computing model over the next five years, bringing changes in the company's financial model, says Chris Capossela, the senior vice president who manages Microsoft's Office business. In one of the most forthright statements of Microsoft's view of the shift from in-house to utility-run software, Capossela said, as summarized by Reuters, that "the company will see more and more companies abandon their own in-house computer...
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| Cloud may squeeze margins, says Microsoft exec | | Microsoft expects corporate customers to accelerate their shift to the cloud computing model over the next five years, bringing changes in the company's financial model, says Chris Capossela, the senior vice president who manages Microsoft's Office business. In one of the most forthright statements of Microsoft's view of the shift from in-house to utility-run software, Capossela said, as summarize [..] Read complete article | | Published 19-May-2008 by Rough Ty in General
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| Steve Ballmer announces Windows Cloud OS |  “Developers, developers, developers, developers!” Steve Ballmer has just announced limited details about a new Windows Operating System: Cloud. Separate from the upcoming and highly anticipated Windows 7, Cloud is geared toward developers to aid them in writing web-based or cloud-computing applications. While Microsoft has primarily been a desktop-based software company, it is opening [..] Read complete article | | Published 01-Oct-2008 by Marc Flores in ServicesWindows Vistacloud-computingmicrosoftMSSoftwareWindowsWindows 7Windows Cloud
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| Microsoft joins the mile high club, embraces the cloud |  It seems like it has been forever since Google first unveiled its Google Docs online productivity suite and popularized the concept of working in the cloud, so to speak. Sure it was embraced by many, businesses around the world were generally hesitant to stray from the addiction that Microsoft Office has become. Since then, a [...] [..] Read complete article | | Published 29-Oct-2008 by Zach Epstein in NewsServicesSoftwarecloudEnterprisemicrosoftOfficeproductivityweb
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| Cloud as a feature | | Microsoft has been touting its "software plus services" strategy for some time, but if you want see some of the most creative thinking about how to meld cloud services with traditional PC software you'd do well to look not at Microsoft but at Mathematica. Wolfram Research, which makes Mathemetica, a heavy-duty and widely used program for computation and modeling, announced last week that it will b [..] Read complete article | | Published 25-Nov-2008 by Rough Ty in General
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| Here comes the "Windows Cloud" | | Amazon and Microsoft are about to be partners - and competitors. Last night, Amazon's Werner Vogels announced that later this fall developers and companies will be able to run Microsoft Windows Server and SQL Server on the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), which up to now has been limited to Linux or other Unix-based systems. Given the broad popularity of the Microsoft operating system, the move [..] Read complete article | | Published 01-Oct-2008 by Rough Ty in General
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