Microsoft and the Cloud

Opinions: How Microsoft Made A Cloud Believer Out of Me LiveSide By Travis Pope on May 15, 2011 10:50 AM by Travis Pope, Zune MVP For three years I've listened to tech luminary Paul Thurrott on his Windows Weekly Podcast tell us about the future of computing and cloud integration. I laughed at his repeated attempts ... What Microsoft's online outage says about its cloud strategy ZDNet (blog) By Ed Bott | May 15, 2011, 2:37pm PDT Last week, Microsoft had four separate issues that knocked its cloud-based e-mail services offline for up to 9 hours. Those incidents highlight the most important thing to keep in mind when buying any cloud service ...

Sony Attack Shows Amazon Cloud Lures Hackers at Pennies an Hour Bloomberg A hacker used Amazon's Elastic Computer Cloud, or EC2, service to attack Sony's online entertainment systems last month, a person with knowledge of the matter said May 13. The intruder, who used a bogus name to set up an account that's now disabled, ...

Microsoft Pairs Azure Cloud With Mobile Devices PCWorld By Paul Krill, Infoworld Microsoft is positioning its Windows Azure cloud service as a platform to provide back-end services for mobile devices, including Apple's iOS and Google's Android. The company is moving forward with its Windows Azure Toolkits ...

Googling, with head in the clouds? Sydney Morning Herald AFTER almost a year of speculation, the worst-kept secret in the music industry is now out: Google officially has a cloud-based music streaming service. Of course, two things about the new offering - called Music Beta by Google - are typically Google: ...

Google Chromebooks Will Test Cloud Mettle of Consumers, Businesses eWeek Google is perhaps making no bigger gamble on its cloud-computing reputation than with the launch of notebooks based on its Chrome operating system. Chrome OS, the search-engine giant's Web-based platform for computers, eschews the traditional, ...

Microsoft Skype P2P No Threat to Google Voice Cloud eWeek Microsoft's play for Skype for a pricey $8.5 billion isn't as concerning for Google as people might think, as Skype's peer-to-peer architecture feels dated next to the cloud. It's been tempting for media and analysts to look at Microsoft's $8.5 billion ...

Opinions: How Microsoft Made A Cloud Believer Out of Me LiveSide By Travis Pope on May 15, 2011 10:50 AM by Travis Pope, Zune MVP For three years I've listened to tech luminary Paul Thurrott on his Windows Weekly Podcast tell us about the future of computing and cloud integration. I laughed at his repeated attempts ...

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