News Report 4
Microsoft launches Windows Azure
By: CNET
url:
http://tech.yahoo.com/news/cnet/20081027/tc_cnet/83011386031007600456
Earlier today, Monday, October 27, Microsoft announced a new version of Windows that runs over the internet from Microsoft’s own servers. This new version would allow access to these programs via the internet, rather than the company’s own databases. This concept gives developers a chance to write programs that are going to live inside Microsoft’s main data centers as compared to the businesses own servers. The announcement about Windows Azure was the first set of details on Windows 7, due out next January. “Microsoft itself plans to offer businesses the option of running over the Internet the kinds of software that has traditionally run on a company's own servers. Microsoft already sells its Exchange corporate e-mail software in this way, but that is just the beginning,” said Microsoft vice president Dave Thompson. "It's a transformation of our software and a transformation of our strategy," said Ray Ozzie, a computing industry pioneer who now serves as Microsoft's Chief Software Architect.
Microsoft is doing everything it can to stay at the top of the technological world. With Amazon and Google growing by the day, Microsoft is in a technological race to see who can outlast who. With the negative reaction to Windows Vista, Microsoft is trying very hard to make Windows 7 the best it can be. Windows 7 needs to be everything that Microsoft is building it up to be. In my opinion, I think Windows 7 will be better than ever. With Azure on the horizon, it looks very promising for Microsoft. The concept of being able to operate some of the programs over the internet, instead of off your own database is a very huge step in the internet game.
Monday, October 27, 2008
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Reading Response 3
Reading Response #3
“The Infodiet: How Libraries Can Offer an Alternative to Google”
By: Steven Bell
This article is one that seems to have a common theme to today’s average college student. The question that is addressed in this article is: how can library databases keep up with the simplicity of Google? When a student is trying to find sources for a paper or just researching a random fact, would if be easier for that student to Google it or research it through his or her library catalog? The answer is simple, it would be easier to Google it. That is what libraries across the country are trying to change. Libraries spend millions of dollars per year on different databases for students to use, but it seems as though students either want to take the easy way out or just don’t know how to use the catalogs. In the article it describes Google as “infobesity,” describing the results Google gives you as junk material. Google gives the researcher a ton of low quality results. By using the library catalog you are able to narrow the search to specific results and are able to find the exact article you are looking for. The only problem with the catalog is that it is time consuming. That is what librarians across the country are trying to solve, the time consumption of the catalog. One experiment that has come up is the “RedLightGreen” project. This project gives users a single search box, just as Google, to give researchers the simplicity of searching a broad topic. If libraries could get this sort of project to catch on it would greatly increases the amount of library catalog use, especially if libraries across the country used the same interface.
“The Infodiet: How Libraries Can Offer an Alternative to Google”
By: Steven Bell
This article is one that seems to have a common theme to today’s average college student. The question that is addressed in this article is: how can library databases keep up with the simplicity of Google? When a student is trying to find sources for a paper or just researching a random fact, would if be easier for that student to Google it or research it through his or her library catalog? The answer is simple, it would be easier to Google it. That is what libraries across the country are trying to change. Libraries spend millions of dollars per year on different databases for students to use, but it seems as though students either want to take the easy way out or just don’t know how to use the catalogs. In the article it describes Google as “infobesity,” describing the results Google gives you as junk material. Google gives the researcher a ton of low quality results. By using the library catalog you are able to narrow the search to specific results and are able to find the exact article you are looking for. The only problem with the catalog is that it is time consuming. That is what librarians across the country are trying to solve, the time consumption of the catalog. One experiment that has come up is the “RedLightGreen” project. This project gives users a single search box, just as Google, to give researchers the simplicity of searching a broad topic. If libraries could get this sort of project to catch on it would greatly increases the amount of library catalog use, especially if libraries across the country used the same interface.
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