Nicholas Carr posts Rumor: Microsoft about to unveil web-apps strategy

by Doug Finke on March 2, 2008

in Microsoft

Steve Clayton posts

Steve Ballmer

“We will have a Windows software-plus-services cloud platform for people to build applications on and where they can deploy those applications. Maybe someone will do the same thing for Linux, but it probably won’t be us,”

Bob Muglia

Amazon’s EC2 “is something we think about all the time. Obviously one of the things we would bring to such a picture is the breadth of our platform. We probably wouldn’t go about a solution like that the way Amazon does because we have a much broader platform to bring to market. I don’t think that just bringing raw compute resources is anywhere near as interesting as the broad platform, but we do think about it a lot,” he said.

Robert Scoble posts “Wait until you see what Ray Ozzie is doing”

To be unveiled in 3 days

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