Microsoft gets official with Windows Azure cloud OS, platform
By Donald Melanson 
posted October 27th 2008 4:03PM
posted October 27th 2008 4:03PM
Steve Ballmer himself first dropped word of this one earlier this month, but Microsoft has now finally gotten official about its new cloud computing operating system, and its name: Windows Azure. What's more, the OS is apparently just one component of Microsoft's larger Azure cloud computing platform, which will eventually be fully rolled out alongside Windows 7, and will encompass Microsoft's existing Live services, SQL services, and .NET services, among other things. If that's got you excited, you can find plenty more details at the link below, and even a few SDKs ready for downloading.[Via Pocket-lint]
Azure is NOT an OS!!!!
Sorry, I meant Windows Azure. Which is what this article is about.
Engadget - to be honest my respect for this blog is no longer there, and the child-crude discussions in this blog simply are the icing on the cake.
I'll describe the new essence of engadget, and the essence of the majority of the comments (which take over any other rational discussion): crude, immature, thoughtless, and uninspiring. Way to go!
NO!!!!!!! If engadget cant measure it with an iphone they don't care!!!!! Now if MS comes out with a palpable object that can be precisely measured with an iphone (like a laptop, or another MS phone) then engadget doesn't care....
Sorry for the double post but i cant help but notice if you look on the right side of this page were the breaking news section is, the last "BREAKING NEWS!" that occurred was the new casio phone coming out..... And this clearly doesn't matter....
There are four reasons to comment on Engadget:
1. To be a Microsoft apologist/Apple hater.
2. To be a Microsoft hater/Apple fanboy (why the different terms?).
3. To try and get highly ranked so people like me can pretend they are popular.
4. To complain about Engadget.
sounds familiar..
RPC to DCOM to webservices to cloud computing? ...hmm cloud computing is not cloud OS..it's the same old wine (whine?)...
Better be ready for the second coming of the 60 second shutdown...
cloud computing means computing still done locally, but stored on a server. so all your stuff is wherever you go. and thats great. most internet transfer speeds are now approaching 6 mb per second! get your space helmet on folks, thats right, 6 mb! now loading up your professional applications and files can take 100 times the wait, and you get to save up to $39! i for one trust microsoft completely to respect the privacy of my files, and i'm pretty darn sure they won't just roll over like at&t did when the patriot act got involved. also, if your internet goes out, absolutely nothing can be done to affect your files. not even from you yourself. I for one am tired of lugging around gigantic 1.8 inch; 160gb drives in my paper thin laptop, just to save a few million hours of waiting for photoshop to load at starbucks while the internet goes out. some non-believers out there tell me you could just save your important stuff to a memory stick and put it on your keys, but lets get serious guys, between purchasing an 8 dollar memory stick and hoisting those 4 grams around everywhere you go, and purchasing and installing an entire new OS from Microsoft, well lets just say my wallet's open and ready!
Sorry to be a pedant, but...
MB = megabytes
Mb = megabits (I assume you meant this)
mb = millibits... erm...
I think cloud computing from either MS or Google is just plain BS. It is not for me, it is only for people who are just abjectly poor and find a $400 laptop or $300 eMachine too expensive to acquire. Honestly you'd also have to be so poor that your data is worth nothing to you or anyone else, otherwise how could you trust your personal data to some company? Off site backup is one thing, but not being able to afford a hard drive to go with your computer is just sad.
The value proposition here is something like being able to save $80 on a hardrive but you have to still pay $50 a month for an internet connection and have all your data sitting on a "cloud" that will answer you maybe when and if it wants and lose your data if it feels like it. Or you could pay so that you have some backup or service level agreement but for sure you'd blow through that $80 savings in 6 months.
With stupid webapp type functionality this like an iPhone only as a PC. Why would I ever want to limit myself with either?
Okay I see one application and that is in a corporate intranet. On the internet this would suck.
Heh... Azure... Vista...
Sounds like that album by the artist "Manual".
I still wish they would have gone for Skynet...
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