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Ballmer: We’re Betting Our Business on the Cloud

All of the sudden, Microsoft is pretty into this cloud thing. Steve Ballmer said last week that Microsoft is “all in” with regard to the cloud. That’s a fairly big turnaround from a couple of years ago, when Microsoft was playing down the pure cloud and hyping its “Software Plus Services” hybrid strategy. S+S still lives, we’re sure, but we did notice that the phrase didn’t appear anywhere in the RCPmag.com article about Ballmer’s cloud declaration. Is Redmond playing catch-up again? It sure seems that way, but fortunately for the Microsoft channel, nobody has anything close to an insurmountable lead in this cloud race.

Posted by Lee Pender on March 08, 2010 at 1:18 PM


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Tue, Mar 9, 2010 EVVJSK Indiana

I hope that means that they are going to begin tying "the cloud" into computers using an open interface (HTML, Java, etc...) so that they can let their customers chose what platform they want to implement (Windows, Linux, Apple, Blackberry, Symbian, etc...). That is the way business is moving, Microsoft and other vendors ignore that trend at it's own peril.

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