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Microsoft: Making Data Centers Like Lego

Posted Wednesday, December 03, 2008 8:20 PM by stevecla01
Video: Microsoft Generation 4.0 Data Center Vision   Lovin that video – I want to see those Windows Azure trucks rolling down my street! Fun aside, the Generation 4 data centers that are depicted here and talked about at length on Mike Manos’s blog Read More...
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Microsoft: We can help you save money

Posted Monday, November 17, 2008 11:49 PM by stevecla01
That was the word from Stephen Elop today at the launch of our Microsoft Online products . In a nutshell, this is Microsoft offering to host Exchange and SharePoint in our datacenters for customers of all sizes. Previously available only to big businesses Read More...
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What’s All This Cloud Computing Guff?

Posted Monday, November 17, 2008 1:37 PM by stevecla01
The broadsheet coverage of cloud computing continues apace with Tim Walker at The Independent covering it today under the soon to be overused title Cloudsurfing . What I love about serious papers covering the topic is they remove a lot of the hyperbole Read More...
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The Azure cake

Posted Tuesday, November 04, 2008 11:32 PM by stevecla01
I thought Network World did a pretty good job of putting the Azure cake together – though the top layer shown here isn’t technically part of the Azure Platform. The top layer shown here is Microsoft Online so this is actually a good cake of our S+S offerings Read More...
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Michael Manos on Datacenter Leadership

Posted Tuesday, November 04, 2008 3:08 PM by stevecla01
ARCast.TV - Michael Manos on Datacenter Leadership Slowly but surely I’m slipping to to being a data center geek and there is nobody better to learn from in Microsoft than Michael Manos. His is da man. He works in GFS (Global Foundation Services) and Read More...
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Microsoft 3.0

Posted Sunday, November 02, 2008 9:39 PM by stevecla01
What I believe you actually saw last week at the PDC, if you looked carefully, was Microsoft 3.0   The dust is now settling on PDC 2008 and more measured commentary is arriving . I’ve been waiting for this PDC for a long time and to see the reaction. Read More...
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A Platform for the Next Technology Revolution

Posted Tuesday, October 28, 2008 10:58 PM by stevecla01
Steve Ballmer lays out our Software plus Services announcements and ambitions in an executive email titled A Platform for the Next Technology Revolution . It’s a pretty solid read if you want to know what this S+S thing I rattle on about is all about. Read More...
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Microsoft Office – now in a browser

Posted Tuesday, October 28, 2008 6:48 PM by stevecla01
  We just announced here at PDC our Office Web Applications – yep, Office is coming to the browser. I’ll write more on this later but one thing I’ll say up front is this is a very capable version of Office. Much more so than Google Docs IMHO and Read More...
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Developing on Live Mesh is…well, Live

Posted Tuesday, October 28, 2008 6:46 PM by stevecla01
  Let the good times roll with development on the Live Framework – just announced by Treadwell. Go get it Read More...
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Microsoft hits F5 on the Software plus Services website

Posted Tuesday, October 28, 2008 3:22 AM by stevecla01
  From the people who brought you that amazingly cool Live Mesh video…..finally a website to do our Software plus Services vision justice. I know, i know….the video is in WMV right now but I think the video quality does it justice. I’ll be back with Read More...
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Clouds On The Horizon at PDC 2008

Posted Sunday, October 26, 2008 4:50 PM by stevecla01
I landed in Los Angeles yesterday afternoon with huge excitement about next weeks PDC. For the last year or so I have been working on our Software plus Services initiative within Microsoft and have had to stay tight lipped about lots of the things I’m Read More...
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iPhone is Cloud Computing

Posted Wednesday, October 08, 2008 2:59 PM by stevecla01
  Yep, we’ve been saying the iPhone is a great example of cloud computing – or more accurately Software plus Services – for a while. I’ve said this at a few recent conferences and it always get’s a raised eyebrow when I put an iPhone in my presentation Read More...
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Craig Mundie's talks cloud

Posted Thursday, September 25, 2008 4:48 PM by stevecla01
  S+S and Cloud Computing tends to be the domain of Ray Ozzie, Bob Muglia and other execs so I was interested to read the Technology Review interview with Craig Mundie who heads up research here at Microsoft. Though he used different language at Read More...
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Explaining Software plus Services

Posted Monday, September 22, 2008 7:16 AM by stevecla01
Sometimes we overcomplicate things here at Microsoft to the detriment of getting a clear message across not only to our customers and partners but also our staff. I had the opportunity to explain Software plus Services recently to many of my UK colleagues Read More...
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Intuit already delivering Software plus Services

Posted Sunday, August 24, 2008 4:51 PM by stevecla01
  That’s the charge of Larry Dignan in his post on Microsoft talks software plus services; Intuit actually does it and though the post initially got my back up (XBOX Live is S+S for example) his post is good news – it’s another acknowledgement that Read More...
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