Microsoft: We're Betting the Company on the Cloud
Microsoft: We're Betting the Company on the Cloud
Posted 03/08/2010 at 5:41am
| by Paul Lilly
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Up to this point, Microsoft's bread and butter has been on desktop applications, like Windows and Office. But going forward, the software giant has its head in the cloud, according to Steve Ballmer, who said Microsoft is "betting our company" on cloud computing.
To prove it, some 70 percent of Microsoft employees are hammering away on cloud-related projects as you read this. That's already well over half, but within a year, Ballmer says that number will climb to 90 percent.
Ballmer's remarks came during an address at the University of Washington, in which he also gave credit to Apple's app store for doing a "very nice job" with it.
This goes in line with what Kevin Turner, Microsoft's chief operating officer, recently said when he indicated that much of the company's planned $9.5 billion budget for research and development will go towards the cloud, noting that Microsoft wants to reinvent itself.
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Mighty BOB!
March 08, 2010 at 1:42pm
Call me paranoid but I don't trust the cloud. I like having everything on my hard drive where it is under my own control. I hope this doesn't mean they'll stop supporting non-cloud computing or that it will go unmaintained due to reallocation of resources.
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