Entry #6 Micrsoft's Head is in the Cloud

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At the end of September Steve Ballmer CEO of Microsoft introduced an new Microsoft operating system that will run on the cloud. This new OS was first call Windows Cloud but just recently on the PDC2008 website there was published a topic called "Windows Strata". Now there has been no confirmation that this is the name of the new OS but the name fits and soon after the topic was published it was removed and Microsoft had no comment.

So what is the "cloud " and this new OS? well back in 2005 Microsoft released a project call AJAX(asynchronous JavaScript and XML) witch is a new type of web page technology that allows web pages to really become interactive and powerful. From this came the ability for developers to make application that once you used on your desktop but know could be done through the internet, like Word, Excel, Email, Accounting, etc. So now that there was this power to perform these tasks online there became a need for websites to provide storage and integration for these tools online and hence the cloud was born. Sites like Google started providing integrated office like tools online where you can create, store, and share documents, pictures, emails and anything else you can think of. As this grew more and more popular and there were many people now using the cloud for something individual companies started making their own part of the cloud to attract people to their services and this is were the new Windows Cloud came in.

Although nothing has been officially released from Microsoft we can expect that Windows Cloud will look similar to Windows Mesh but will allow for further integration of Microsoft products and other products (we hope).

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