Cloud computing strategy don't underestimate Microsoft's ability to reverse

Microsoft last week showed evidence that it will continue to dominate the next 10 years. Microsoft has released more integrated products and strategies for cloud computing, including http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/13357.html ">azure series Cloud computing Services, network delivery, lightweight office apps, And the latest live mesh middleware software. Google may have won the search war, but Microsoft will not cede global cloud computing sovereignty.

If the past 33 years, Microsoft's success depends on the developer community, with a large group of loyal, and middle-paid software warriors. Microsoft's mantra is: "Create a platform, and a developer, partner, user of the ecological system, willing to spend money will naturally follow." "An attractive platform, and the potential to reach large buyers, helps Microsoft attract developers and create applications and services that attract consumers and business users," he said.

Microsoft now understands that its platform must extend to every device (PCs, laptops, smartphones, automobiles, home appliances, etc.), and offline solutions. Microsoft missed the web search revolution, but the bigger revolution: The next 20 years of cloud computing migration, Microsoft will never be absent.

Google is building a similar ecosystem from scratch, and is keen to attract millions of of developers to join. Amazon is pushing its flexible computing cloud program, with Rackspace, EMC, IBM and many others wanting to get a piece. Most of these companies focus on escrow services, but the biggest piece will be the platform, the service, where developers can create and execute their applications for cloud computing operating systems.

One of the early examples of this trend is the Force.com platform owned by Salesforce.com. Sun, the first to shout "Network is computer," has all the resources to build a global cloud, but so far there is no positive action. As my friend Steve Gillmor says, Sun is now in a dilemma.

Openness is a major issue in the gradual process of global cloud computing. Companies do not want to be locked in a particular cloud computing system, and they want a variety of cloud computing systems and services to be interoperable through standards. Ozzie, Microsoft's chief software engineer, said last week at the Professional Developers Conference (PDC) that the basic level of cloud computing operating systems would be performed at Microsoft's datacenter, but SQL services. NET and live services, which can be executed by the developer in a mixed mix of the company's internal and external data centers. Azure cloud Computing is also cross-platform, but different cloud computing will generate some costs, and the use of basic services in the application of the different cloud between the mobile, natural is not easy, simple.

Microsoft's cloud computing strategy is slower to start than its competitors, and its size is like the Manhattan Project of Windows. Azure is still in the pre-beta phase, whether it can be completed in the future, or whether it can attract a sufficient number of consumers and companies to adopt, supporting Microsoft's business model and the existing market share, are uncertain. But there is no turning back, and Microsoft is finally setting the position of office in cloud computing.

Ray Ozzie is a slow-moving, but absolutely capable master of accomplishing things. Microsoft is famous for its insistence and money. But building a global-scale platform, or a network operating system that supports billions of of users and a few megabytes of information a day, will be a big test of Microsoft's strength in the face of Google's strong competition. When Azure matures and the battle for cloud computing for developers rises, even Bill Gates may drop back into the battlefield after charging, leading the killing.