. Net layout-lessons learned from Microsoft cloud computing

The "lessons learned from the past" is from "Xunzi", which refers to learning from the lessons of the previous car capsizing.

Before proposing a new "Cloud" plan, Microsoft's. NET strategy has taken a detour in terms of computing layout for almost eight years. Recently, Microsoft's Chinese chairman Zhang yaqin also mentioned. net "partially succeeded"
. The general concept of cloud in the industry is to extract computing from PCs or even internal enterprises and place them on computers distributed across networks, the concept of "Cloud" introduced by Microsoft is "software + service ".
"(S + S), the biggest difference between the two is whether to install software for various enterprise computing on the PC. After all, Microsoft's glory mainly comes from its successful Windows and Office products.
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Eight years ago, the network interface was almost a browser.
A series of services and other technologies that use the network as a service-oriented service, but users' computing is still completed in the software of the local PC. In this sense, the premise of. Net assumption is that both computing and storage are stored.
Although looking forward to the network, it is a little early. Eight years later, users are not only accustomed to using the consumer computing provided by the network through blogs and wikis, documents, workbooks, and other work that can only be completed on a local PC in the past
At this time, Microsoft has gradually moved from the PC to the network, but in turn emphasizes the collaboration between the network and software. Why?

If you go through a thorough "Cloud", Microsoft can only be a user option, with a choice rather than a unique one, game rule makers may soon become Microsoft's most powerful competitor-Google;

"Cloud" computing Microsoft is a new employee, just as Microsoft uses office users' habits to defeat many competitors in the industry, it is likely that one step into "Cloud" will be due to the previous usage of the development team
The reason is often left behind. Especially for many teams that intend to innovate under the new computing concept, Microsoft may be less open than other competitors. As a fresh technical concept at the present stage
With the support of the development team, investment and time may be wasted;

Most of Microsoft's revenue comes from product upgrades. However, although there are also versions and service updates in the current "Cloud" computing, some of the original products basically adopted the traffic charging method, unless more attractive
Otherwise, it is difficult to generate the product upgrade cost based on the previous method; in the S + S mode, Microsoft can more closely integrate services on the network with software on the PC.
New Features of services may need to be upgraded to local software, so that the cash flow is still smooth;

Microsoft's technical openness and IT service costs dilemma: if you do not join the software, the more controllable measures will all adopt the "Cloud" computing-related protocols defined by W3C or other organizations,
That is to say, Microsoft's advantages in PC software are wiped out, and it is likely to invest a lot of money to marry others. However, if more Microsoft-based network services are used, with Microsoft software, users can get service extensions
Although it service costs can be advantageous, this will lead to interoperability problems with other manufacturers' services.

So what are the problems of S + s after many other considerations?

Unlike eight years ago, pure Internet software products of Google, Amazon, and other vendors have developed new user habits, and the user shares of such habits are growing rapidly. Medium
Small enterprises may be more willing to use software on the Internet to obtain information and complete their business at any time, because compared with investment in IT staff, software costs, and other costs, it is more cost-effective and convenient to complete in the "cloud"
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It is undeniable that many enterprises, especially large enterprises, still have many internal systems, internal storage, internal servers and network devices, but these are not Microsoft's strengths;

With. net, although Microsoft has created a family of development tools, its cautious attitude towards open source in the past few years has delayed many times.
2000, 2003, and 2008 continue to support more and more large Internet applications, but compared with open-source Linux, the overall investment cost is not too obvious price advantage. Selection of development tools and Operating Systems
It will directly affect the balance of "s + S" at the end of the software.

. Net's mistakes in computing layout can be fully referenced by Microsoft's "Cloud" plan:

We firmly believe that computing and storage will be more and more on the network, but we must be more open to ourselves to gain benefits.