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Dovella
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Windows Cloud' to descend this month, says Ballmer

Microsoft prefers to 'obsolete ourselves'

Microsoft will let loose a new operating system, Windows Cloud, at the company’s annual developer conference later this month.

Boss Steve Ballmer announced Redmond’s plans at a Software plus Services partner event in London this lunchtime.

He playfully gave the OS the temporary name of Windows Cloud. Apparently, we’ll learn more from Microsoft about the platform at the Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles, which takes place at the end of October.

“We need a new operating system designed for the cloud and we will introduce one in about four weeks, we’ll even have a name to give you by then. But let’s just call it for the purposes of today ‘Windows Cloud’,” said Ballmer.

“Just like Windows Server looked a lot like Windows but with new properties, new characteristics and new features, so will Windows Cloud look a lot like Windows Server.”

Ballmer also hinted at what would be built into the new OS, including geo replication, how to design apps intended to commingle [we think he means appeasing regulators by providing more interoperability], management modelling and an SOA model, to effectively create a new platform.

“We’re not driving an agenda towards being service providers but we’ve gotta build a service that is Windows in the cloud,” admitted Ballmer.

He also hit out at internet kingpin and pesky rival Google

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Dovella Said

Live mesh?

m.elbanan

that's cool

brian.shapiro
things go on as always

I don't read Dovella posts that don't have animated GIFs

DCMonkey
Monkey see, monkey do, monkey will destroy you!

I suspect it's more along the lines of Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2).

magicalclick

Yeah, heard about it on LiveSide. I think it is not something cool like Live Mesh. It is probably for big business, not casual users.

figuerres
???

funny thing, there is no officical MSFT press relase on this.... I wonder if that post is even real.

DCMonkey
Monkey see, monkey do, monkey will destroy you!

In reply to figuerres

#Oct 2nd, 2008 @ 2:59 PM

Well, they didn't actually announce anything. It was just some comments made by Ballmer about an upcoming announcement at PDC. The "Windows Cloud" moniker isn't even an official codename much less an official product name.

You'll likely see the official press release when it's announced at PDC.

evildictaitor
if( !succeed( try() ) ) { while(true) try(); }

In reply to DCMonkey

#Oct 2nd, 2008 @ 3:20 PM

It could mean absolutely anything from an off the cuff comment meaning "it's all up in the air" to suggesting a change of tack in future towards more services being performed "in the cloud".

With something as vague as this, it's not worth speculating. It's easier to guess the number and style of backgrounds that they intend to ship with Windows 7 until they bother to release an actual statement with some information on it.

DCMonkey
Monkey see, monkey do, monkey will destroy you!

In reply to evildictaitor

#Oct 2nd, 2008 @ 3:56 PM

Well, there's been plenty of chatter about it under the "official" codenames of "Red Dog" and "Zurich".

BlackTiger
If you stumbled and fell down, it doesn't mean yet, that you're going in the wrong direction.

I think, SB just said something he shouldn't to say...
Now developers in MS trying to do "something" which will looks like a "cloud"... Something without a proper share and sometimes raining...

Dovella
Go Microsoft !!!!!!!

In reply to brian.shapiro

#Oct 2nd, 2008 @ 2:12 PM

OK

Yggdrasil
Pour me a cab, 'cause I can't drink no more.

Are we talking about a whole new OS here, or simply the version of Windows Server running on Amazon's EC2? (blogged by Werner Vogels/Amazon Press Release).