News Report 4
Microsoft launches Windows Azure
By: CNET
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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.
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Going along with everything discussed in class and in the news about how the internet is constantly growing and expanding, I found this article very interesting. I think this is an interesting approach Microsoft is making by creating this new verison that will allow access to certain programs via the internet rather than going through the company's own databases. Competition to stay on top in the technological world is increasingly growing, who knows what the internet will offer us in the short years to come...
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