Microsoft's "Windows Cloud" Operating System

Wednesday, October 1, 2008

In a month's time Microsoft will announce a new operating system called Windows Clouds. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has revealed a few details about this new operating system last Wednesday. But this new OS is not in any way connected or part of the Windows 7 the operating system that Microsoft is developing to succeed Windows Vista. Windows Clouds (or whatever its name would be upon its release) "is intended for developers writing cloud-computing applications". This is what Ballmer said to IT managers at a Microsoft-sponsored conference in London. Cloud computing is a term often applied to programs that are presented in a Web browser, but the actual computing is performed at a distant data center. So if you are not a developer this new OS would not be of any use for you.

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Thomas Hammerlund said...

I thought it was not going to replace Windows 7, the successor to Vista.

October 2, 2008 at 3:57 AM

Pastilan said...

Windows 7 is a different project, it would be for the rest of us who are not developers of cloud-computing applications.

Windows Cloud or whatever its name would be, is not intended to replace Windows 7.

October 2, 2008 at 5:16 AM

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