Microsoft invests massively in data centres for cloud computing
Microsoft invests massively in data centres for cloud computing
Software giant Microsoft is fighting rival Google for a place in the clouds. The company thinks that more and more software services will take over or replace the tasks currently being handled by Microsoft applications on business and home PCs. In the past two weeks alone, Microsoft has unveiled several key products it thinks will accelerate the process of transition to cloud computing, or software services delivered over the internet. With the Azure "cloud" operating system, described by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer as "a platform for the next technology revolution", companies can choose whether to run applications on their own computers or lease them from Microsoft as a web-based service. Windows Live is already being used as an online storage and archive system for photos, blogs and other web-based content, and the Exchange mail server, which has until now been offered as a software package for corporate clients, will soon be made available as a web service. Microsoft intends to do the same with its Office application suite.
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Posted by GES - Architect to the Clouds at Thursday, November 27, 2008 6:06 AM 
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