Microsoft: Desktop in the cloud
Microsoft wants to take advantage of the CeBIT to present its strategy for 2010. The most important announcements: Cloud Computing, Office 2010 and a collaboration with Xing.
According to a study by market research firm Gartner, cloud computing is ranked second on the priority list of CIOs for 2010. Make no doubt that the technology has the hype behind it and the first phase, firms already have specific experience with the online services. Microsoft wants this very front seat and has now introduced at the Cebit its offerings around cloud computing platform, Windows Azure.
Consultants and agents for Windows Azure
Senior Software Developer for Windows Azure Ray Ozzie had already announced the end of October 2008 at the Professional Developers Conference (PDC) in Los Angeles. For several months, the technology is available. Some prominent Microsoft distributors may also show already, including Accenture, Atos Origin, BT, HP, T-Systems and Vodafone. More than 500 partner companies with 3,000 consultants are Microsoft says that the move, to inspire the customers for cloud computing à la Microsoft. Supposedly, the online services that include, inter alia, Exchange Online and SharePoint Online, already used by more than 500 enterprise customers.
According to Achim Berg, CEO of Microsoft Germany, are “cloud services not hype, but a leap in technology, just like the introduction of the PC” in the workplace. The statement is not without a certain irony, after all, just draws its biggest profits with Microsoft Windows and Office from the desktop business. In the 90s the software giant had warily watched the doings of the competitor Sun Microsystems: The Java programming language and the network computer where the software is also no longer runs on the desktop, should make a traditional desktop PC, eradicated them.
Although Java and network computers, despite the initial hype were not in a position to Microsoft’s domination of the PC world, even close to dangerous – the trend towards software services from the web has taken in recent years more and more while driving developed very different models and it was just a simple office application on the Web such as Google’s Docs and Spreadsheets. ” Even Adobe, also one of the pioneers of the desktop era with Acrobat.com offers an online platform for office workers. So Microsoft is left nothing else than to bring cloud computing, and now wants to put himself at the head of development.
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