Microsoft and the Cloud: The Desmond Perspective
Michael Desmond is editor in chief of
Redmond
Developer News, our magazine for corporate development managers (we
also own
Visual
Studio Magazine).
Last week, Mr. Desmond tackled
an issue we've been talking about here: whether Microsoft can move from
a maker of packaged software to a services company. And like this here Redmond
Report, the real insight came from readers.
In Desmond's case, several developers made a strong case for why Microsoft
will have trouble adapting to cloud computing. They had me convinced -- until
a reader who goes by "smehaffie" argued that Microsoft can sit back
and watch this whole area evolve while it quietly crafts a killer cloud solution.
Desmond isn't buying smehaffie's argument, but I might be!
Posted by Doug Barney on July 16, 2008