Microsoft To Release Cloud-Oriented Windows OS 209
CWmike writes "Within a month, Microsoft will unveil what CEO Steve Ballmer called 'Windows Cloud.' The operating system, which will likely have a different name, is intended for developers writing cloud-computing applications, said Ballmer, who spoke to an auditorium of IT managers at a Microsoft-sponsored conference in London. Ballmer was short on details, saying more information would spoil the announcement. Windows Cloud is a separate project from Windows 7, the operating system that Microsoft is developing to succeed Windows Vista."
Microsoft Dark Cloud (Score:5, Funny)
Don't hold your breath (Score:5, Funny)
This sounds like vapourware to me.
Wonder if (Score:5, Funny)
they have an HTML version of the Blue Screen Of Death.
cloud = vaporware? (Score:3, Funny)
It seems so obvious now.
Re:Wonder if (Score:5, Funny)
Will it function cross browser? (Score:3, Funny)
hohum (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Don't hold your breath (Score:2, Funny)
Windows for cloud computing (Score:4, Funny)
I sense a disturbance in the Force ... (Score:5, Funny)
as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in labored puns about windows and clouds and nobody had the sense to silence them.
Re:What is it? (Score:2, Funny)
It's Windows Vaporware [today.com]. It's a dessert wax and a floor topping. It's any marketing spin at all that they think might put people off competitors' products.
Anyone can talk up a hand of five aces [roughlydrafted.com]. Producing it when called is a bit harder.
Perhaps it will have $DATABASE_FILESYSTEM!
Re:What is it? (Score:5, Funny)
This is the pre-announcement to announce an announcement. You'll have to wait for the actual announcement to find out what the hell it is.
Re:Distributed Blue Screen of Death (Score:5, Funny)
No, the Falling Blue Sky Of Death.
Re:Don't hold your breath So hazy i can't see... (Score:2, Funny)
Project/Code Name?
Candidates:
Tacoma
Wincoma
GLAUcoma
Cloudy
Misty
TearDrop
Charmin
Re:Microsoft Cloud (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Don't hold your breath So hazy i can't see... (Score:5, Funny)
Project/Code Name?
Since this is Slashdot, how about...
"Insensitive Cloud"
Re:Wonder if (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Don't hold your breath (Score:2, Funny)
Blue Stratocumulus of Death? Are you implying they are "seeding the cloud(TM*)"?
*predictive, Wonder if FSF could snag it,,
Re:Don't hold your breath So hazy i can't see... (Score:3, Funny)
Clouds ARE insensitive, you clo .... (struck by lightening, vaporized...)
Re:Wonder if (Score:4, Funny)
Windows + Cloud = Irving Berlin (Score:2, Funny)
Windows Cloud... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Microsoft Dark Cloud (Score:3, Funny)
Don't people usually close Windows when it turns cloudy ?
This already exists in the wild (Score:5, Funny)
This windows cloud computing stuff is already used to send millions of emails a day and so on. The product itself really isn't news, the only news is that Ballmer is finally giving it a product name so we can talk about it more effectively in the media.
For a list of computers participating in the Windows Cloud, go here [spamhaus.org] and request an rsync feed for the XBL.
Re:Microsoft Cloud (Score:3, Funny)
No, it has one [silverlight.net]
Make it the next poll! (Score:4, Funny)
I would have voted for "Windows Nimbus."
This should be the next poll.
Previewed previously (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Microsoft Cloud (Score:3, Funny)