Microsoft: Profits from cloud computing services are low

"Driving Home News" Ray Ozzie, Microsoft's chief Software architect, said yesterday that the provision of online services, the week-round cloud computing service, would reduce the profitability of the company's existing software business.

"The benefits of the service do not want to profit from the software now, and cloud computing will increase our total revenue, but not make too much profit," Ozzie said at a Silicon Valley technology conference yesterday. ”

Ozzie is the dominant force in Microsoft's gradual approach to cloud computing, and he has been managing Microsoft's long-term technology strategy since he retired three years ago. Microsoft has so far been just a tentative phase in cloud computing, investing in data centers for home users, and later this year will unveil the Azure platform for Windows cloud computing, providing developers with a cloud platform to develop software.

Enterprise users usually run programs locally on the server, but as the internet grows, more and more users are performing software online, that is, using cloud computing services, and in theory, using cloud computing can help users save on hardware and maintenance costs, Because all data storage and operations are performed on the data center and server of the service side.

Companies that have made good progress in cloud computing include Amazon, Google and Saleforce.com, and their growth has also brought considerable pressure on Microsoft.