Microsoft in the Cloud
    You may know us for 
Redmond magazine and our associated Web site. But 
  did you know that we have four other magazines, including 
Redmond 
  Channel Partner, aimed at Microsoft VARs and integrators; 
Visual 
  Studio Magazine, aimed at programmers; 
Virtualization 
  Review for IT folks; and 
Redmond 
  Developer News (RDN) for development managers?
Two RDN reporters attended our recent VSLive! 
  New York show and came away with a better understanding of Microsoft's 
  cloud plans. Microsoft believes that much of what's in your datacenter right 
  now will move to the cloud. In fact, nearly everything that's essentially me-too 
  software -- such as database, e-mail and CRM -- will be remote.
While you may lament the lack of control, ultimately cloud computing could 
  save us loads of electricity. And because the software runs in massive, centralized 
  datacenters, security may well improve. Tell me where I'm wrong at [email protected].
Meanwhile, here's 
  a cover story we did on Ray Ozzie's cloud plans.
 
	
Posted by Doug Barney on September 15, 2008