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November 17, 2009 from Forbes – “With the Windows 7 launch now behind it, Microsoft is on to the next big thing. At the company’s Professional Developers Conference Tuesday, chief software architect Raymond Ozzie announced that Microsoft will launch its highly-anticipated cloud platform on Jan. 1.
Called “Windows Azure,” Microsoft’s latest operating system is designed for developers to write applications in Microsoft’s .NET programming language. Unlike programs that require a Windows desktop machine to run, the idea behind Azure is to allow developers to write applications that will run in a browser and communicate with servers in one of Microsoft’s massive data centers via the Internet…
The big news here was support for more tools,” says PC Magazine’s Michael Miller. He notes that Azure will not just support .NET programming language, but also PHP, MySQL and a host of other popular open-source tools…”
180 View – It won’t be that long before Windows applications will be replaced by web based applications much like Windows applications replaced DOS applications for those old enough to remember. However, we don’t think that most large companies will be prepared to store their data in the clouds.
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