Microsoft CEO Ballmer: cloud computing service

According to foreign media reports, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said in a speech at the University of Washington on Thursday that among the company's 40 thousand software developers, 70% using cloud computing technology, this proportion will increase to 90% in one year.

Ballmer explained his views on the importance of cloud computing technology and how Microsoft plans to seize this opportunity. He said that all Microsoft products, including windows, office, Xbox, azure, Bing, and Windows Phone, are affected by the concept of connecting to the cloud. Although some recently launched products such as Windows 7 have nothing to do with the cloud, their development inspiration was initially related to the cloud.

In addition to software, Ballmer said, Microsoft's strategy also includes developing devices connected to the cloud, and the cloud needs more intelligent devices.

Ballmer admitted that Microsoft had made mistakes in the mobile phone business in the past and gave too many choices to hardware vendors. We did not do enough in terms of standardization, affecting the user experience. Microsoft released a new version of mobile phone software named Windows Phone 7, which has more hardware requirements. However, compared with competitors such as Apple and rim, hardware manufacturers still have more room for innovation.

Microsoft has adopted a mobile phone-like strategy in the Xbox game business. But Ballmer said that in the future, different prices and configurations of Xbox consoles will have different appearances.

Ballmer said Microsoft hopes to help develop different cloud computing services. cloud services are not patents of Microsoft and the other four companies. Any user can deploy their own cloud services. Microsoft may be willing to help some organizations run their own cloud computing environments, because Microsoft will not provide similar services.

According to Ballmer, the potential benefits of cloud computing are high for enterprises and researchers. 'Getting rid of poverty means they will consume more energy, and we need to speed up technological innovation to address climate warming before that, 'he said. If public cloud services are used, researchers can better test and analyze more data.

The cloud computing model will also bring new opportunities for enterprises. For example, an enterprise originally only has the resources required to provide products to local customers, but after using cloud services, it can provide products to more customers, you do not need to build expensive data centers in advance.