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Steve Ballmer Maps Microsoft’s Cloud-y Future (The New York Times)
Look at the picture above. It’s an original Steve Ballmer created before my eyes on the wall of a conference room here at The Times. Simple, isn’t it? Well, that’s the point that Mr. Ballmer, the chief executive of Microsoft, was trying to make when he drew it. I was talking to him about Microsoft’s plans to offer companies cloud computing services — software that will run on Microsoft’s new network of big data centers. As I learned about the Azure system, Microsoft’s new cloud operating system, I started to wonder if it is overly complex. I asked if Microsoft was risking taking on too much, as it did with Longhorn, the operating system rewrite that led to the ill-fated Windows Vista. Continue reading this entry »