Cloud computing promotes change Microsoft embraces "non-Microsoft" technology

Comprehensive media reports, in order to comply with the IT trend of cloud computing, continue to lead the trend of the Times, the PC era of the king of Microsoft, actively make many changes, and even embrace the "non-Microsoft" technology. To create a world-class cloud infrastructure, Microsoft has spent $ billions of trillion. Dynamics CRM, in addition to providing users with SaaS services such as Dynamics CRM Online, companies and partners can build private cloud solutions based on Dynamics CRM ...

Here are some of the major changes Microsoft has made in the cloud computing era:

SQL Azure price to attract customers

Recently, Microsoft has lowered the price of the SQL Azure database platform server to attract more users to the Cloud computing server system.

Steven Martin, senior manager of developer platform Management at Microsoft, said in post: "The current price reduction strategy of Microsoft and the introduction of a new entry-level database are the result of feedback from customer information and a constant innovation in the user model."

Lower Small and medium enterprises tariff threshold

More than half of the eight Asia-Pacific markets have decided to implement a cloud-computing project within 18 months, while 53% of them have made cloud computing the highest priority, with few allocations for the project, according to research.

To this end, Microsoft launched a very low initial deployment tariff threshold to attract a large number of small and medium-sized enterprises into the cloud.

Microsoft's achievements in innovation and development in its official microblog, said that the Chinese market for small and medium-sized enterprises of many characteristics, we make timely adjustments, launched a very low cloud computing initial deployment tariff threshold, for those holding a wait-and-see state of the enterprise, this is a huge positive news, Help more SMEs into the cloud.

Windows Azure is free to use in the first year of new ventures

As an extension of the BizSpark program, Microsoft launched the "BizSpark Plus" event, which will provide 2-year Windows Azure cloud platform services worth 60,000 of dollars for start-ups. The first year of start-ups is free to use Windows Azure, which pays Windows Azure service fee at half price for the second year at the market price. Start-ups will also join the BizSpark program to provide new ventures with tools and software to develop and deploy solutions.

Embracing non-Microsoft technology

Cloud-era applications are run through browsers, and desktop operating systems are irrelevant to cloud computing. So unlike the 90 's, Microsoft has been unable to force application developers to become their own dependencies. So Microsoft has no choice but to give up some technology. For example, give up Silverlight that competes with Adobe Flash and embrace new standards such as HTML5.

Tim Oblein (Tim O ' Brien), Microsoft platform Strategy manager, says Silverlight is now positioned as a browser plug-in "to meet market segments before the standards are yet ripe".

It has been rumored that Microsoft will support Linux in the Azure cloud computing platform, and O ' Brien did not confirm the news. But he pointed out that Microsoft has adopted a lot of "non-Microsoft" technology, including: Eclipse and other Java development tools, open source NoSQL database MongoDB, open source search engine Solr/lucene and Open-source analysis Project Hadoop.

The real question is whether this will push Microsoft to make more cultural changes. There are signs that Microsoft is willing to make more sacrifices. For example, Windows 8 will have many changes, including how to run legacy applications.