Windows Strata
Speculation is growing over Microsoft’s ‘Windows Cloud’ based operating system which Company CEO Steve Ballmer touted last week. Microsoft is expected to officially reveal the final name for the service later this month at Company’s Professional Developers Conference 2008. But it seems a few eagle eyes might have made an early discovery.
Personally I was hoping it would Windows Live Server, since the Company would like to expose the platform more to developers and give it a serious background. The focus of a Windows Cloud would be to bring more of Microsoft’s traditional desktop solutions to the Internet, especially for developer tools like Visual Studio and Microsoft Office. The Company still wants to make desktop software relevant by wrapping together Services plus Software to create a solution that both consumers and businesses can be more comfortable and willing to make their data move to remote servers.
I see the strategy, but the scattered technologies that are Windows Live will need to work in more synergistic fashion. The storage part of it needs to be more centralized and accessible for the web based applications in addition to services like Windows Mail, Spaces and Live Mesh in addition to the Windows Desktop. My understanding based on a post I read at LiveSide.net is that SkyDrive will be used as repository for storing the content created from all these services.
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