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Is Microsoft <em>Really</em> Committed To Cloud Computing?

Apr 26, 2010
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ZDNet: Is Microsoft Really Committed To Cloud Computing?

Microsoft wants to sell you on itself as a cloud computing partner, but as Google App developer Louis Naugès argues in this – possibly somewhat biased – blog post, Microsoft stands to lose big if cloud computing conquers all. So what’s its real agenda?


“Why this title? Have we not heard from top-level Microsoft officials the praises of Cloud Computing, around their Azure solutions?

This text is anything but an anti-Microsoft pamphlet. It’s an analysis — cold, objective and financial — of the potential impacts of the Cloud Computing Tsunami on the finances of Microsoft.”

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