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Ballmer seems to be getting pretty serious with the idea of bringing Microsoft into Cloud computing. A concept that puts programs functioning within a browser and the working performed at distant data-centers and more or less takes the load of your system. Coined with the name; Windows Cloud, the operating system isn’t a distant dream and is set to launch within a month.
Although Microsoft hasn’t thrown out details about the product, but it’s definitely a different project from the Windows 7; which is desktop operating system.
The idea to come out with this must be to get Microsoft into the race of cloud computing, but it definitely has no plans at moving its prime products, like the Office Suite off the desktop grid. Apart from that, Google overtaking almost everything in the Web world with dominance over Search as well as its popular web based suites like Google Docs and Spreadsheet.
Perhaps the idea is to offer secondary options with the web based products for consumers who can’t afford expensive suites, all because of the current economic downfall as Ballmer said so in his interview to the BBC.
You’ve got to assume that people are going to assess their overall wealth differently so they aren’t going to be spending as much on high-cost capital goods.
That’s just my assumption and I guess it isn’t totally wrong either.
