I'm not ever going to say "Mission Accomplished".
Another VP of cloud at the PDC saying "I'm not going to give a timeframe".
I could go and gather more quotes but am too busy to search. All I've got to say is looking good Microsoft (to crash and burn that is) - not your valuables but customers who sign up for cloud.
Ray Ozzie's view from the clouds
Summary
In a lengthy interview, Microsoft's Ray Ozzie talked about clouds, lessons Microsoft learned from the recent Sidekick outage as well as why people are wrong to count Microsoft out of the smartphone race.
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When Ray Ozzie penned his Internet Services Disruption memo back in 2005, he had a pretty good idea where the computing world was going. He just didn't know how Microsoft was going to get there.
While many are ready to write off Microsoft as an declining icon of computing's last generation, Ozzie sees Microsoft positioned to leapfrog some of the companies that tend to be thought of as the leaders of the cloud computing world--names like Amazon, Salesforce and Google.
"I will never, ever, utter the words 'mission accomplished' for obvious reasons," Ozzie said in an interview after his speech at the Professional Developers Conference. "But I'm really pleased with where things are."
It's been a tough journey, to be sure. But, Ozzie says Microsoft has changed in ways he could not have imagined. In particular, Ozzie points to Windows Azure--Microsoft's operating system in the clouds. Rather than just offer a set of services to move today's computing programs to remote servers, Ozzie says Azure is designed to handle the applications of tomorrow.
For more, read "Ray Ozzie's view from the clouds" on CNET News.
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zzz123456789018th Nov 2009 -
Windows Azure is a very impressive service
I had the opportunity to talk with Ray at the PDC this week and I believe that he has reason to be optimistic. The PDC was mainly focused on Windows Azure services and the full breadth of this vision is very impressive. They can provide blob, table, and sql data by the sip, by the drink, or by the swimming pool with the flick of a switch. The construction of paired data centers to host this service is a massive infrastructural investment. All in all my impression is that Microsoft is very serious about this initiative.
billappleton@...20th Nov 2009
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