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Gerrit Eicker
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Gerrit Eicker
Jobs and Apple: Rewriting History?
Schonfeld: Is Steve Jobs ignoring history, or trying to rewrite it? http://j.mp/buaNKQ
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Gerrit Eicker
Chrome and OS X: Squeezing Windows
Google is aiming at the bottom of the OS market, Apple at its top: squeezing Windows in between; http://j.mp/61MK3j
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Gerrit Eicker
Conficker Launches Soon
The Conficker worm: april fool’s joke or unthinkable disaster? Soon on a Windows-machine next to you; http://tr.im/hD0z
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Gerrit Eicker
The Lego OS
Coldewey speculates about life after Microsoft Windows and thinks it’s Lego-time now; http://tr.im/c9ug
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Gerrit Eicker
EU vs. Internet Explorer
EU: Microsoft’s tying of Internet Explorer to Windows harms competition between Web browsers; http://cli.gs/ZyRa0q
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Gerrit Eicker
Azure: Microsoft’s Cloud
Microsoft declared a third era of operating systems: Azure names its (pretty late) cloud plans; http://is.gd/4Xqj
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EC2 Leaves Beta Stage
Amazon‘s EC2 is now in full production, including a beta form of Microsoft Windows; http://is.gd/4F8u




Gerrit Eicker 09:36 on 28. October 2008 Permalink |
Winer: “I was hoping Microsoft would hit the home run, but it seems not. Why wouldn’t the Windows company just offer Windows in the cloud – nothing more and nothing less? The marketing people seem to have figured it out, they call the new offering Windows Azure, but what does it have to do with Windows other than sharing a brand? I don’t know. … Looks like I’m going to bet on Amazon.”
RWW: “Earlier in the day I’d asked Daz Wilkin, of Microsoft’s platform group, how Microsoft Azure compares to Amazon’s cloud offerings. Wilkin stated that Amazon’s system can be thought of as an ‘empty vessal’, because developers basically pour all their software and effort into Amazon’s system. Microsoft Azure on the other hand, according to Wilkin, is a ‘compute fabric’ – the developer can focus on building the business logic and then scaling the platform to the demand. Azure takes away the ‘lower level complexities’, according to Wilkin.”
Handelsblatt: “Microsoft reagiert mit dem massiven Einstieg ins ‘Cloud Computing’ auch auf die Bedrohung seiner Geschäftsfelder durch Wettbewerber wie Google, Amazon, SAP, IBM und Salesforce.com. Sie bieten bereits Software via Internet an oder lassen Unternehmen ihre riesige Datenzentren online nutzen. – Kunden von Microsoft dringen seit langem auf mehr Öffnung hin zum Web. Für den Softwareriesen drohen dabei große Gefahren: Der US- Konzern muss seine nach wie vor wichtigsten Ertragsbringer, die Programme Windows und Office vor zum Teil sogar kostenlosen Konkurrenzangeboten via Internet schützen.”