Voices » cloud services http://voices.allthingsd.com from other Web sites Tue, 24 Nov 2009 01:48:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://allthingsd.com/theme/images/logo-rss.jpg All Things Digital http://allthingsd.com/ 144 22 Never Underestimate Microsoft's Ability to Turn a Corner http://voices.allthingsd.com/20081103/never-underestimate-microsofts-ability-to-turn-a-corner/ http://voices.allthingsd.com/20081103/never-underestimate-microsofts-ability-to-turn-a-corner/#comments Mon, 03 Nov 2008 08:03:18 +0000 Robert Scoble http://voices.allthingsd.com/?p=5606 By Robert Scoble, Blogger, Scobleizer

This week Microsoft (MSFT) didn’t get much hype for its three major announcements. Certainly it didn’t stay on top of TechMeme as long as, say, if Steve Jobs gets a sniffle. But don’t miss what they did.

1. On day one of the PDC, they announced Azure, which is a set of cloud services that competes with Amazon’s S3 and Rackspace’s Mosso and will radically change enterprises’ acceptance of cloud services for a whole lot of reasons.

2. On day two of the PDC, they showed off Windows 7, which is getting high praise from my blogging friends who were lent laptops with it on there (I didn’t get Windows 7 yet).

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