Microsoft CEO talks on cloud computing

In Thursday, Steve Ballmer, Microsoft's CEO, said in a speech at the University of Washington that 70% of the company's 40,000 software developers used cloud computing technology, accounting for most of the proportion, and 1 years later it will rise to 90%. This shows that cloud computing with its unique advantages to become a Microsoft operation can not be part of the.

In addition to the superficial data, Ballmer also described his views on the importance of cloud computing technology and how Microsoft plans to seize this opportunity. All Microsoft products, including Windows, Office, Xbox, Azure, Bing, and Windows Phone, are affected by the idea of cloud connectivity, he said. Although some of the most recently introduced products, such as Windows 7, contain cloud-independent factors, their development inspiration was initially related to the cloud.

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

Mr Ballmer admits that Microsoft's past failures in the mobile phone business have given the hardware manufacturers too many choices, and we have not done enough in standardization to affect the user experience. Microsoft unveiled a new version of mobile phone software called Windows Phone 7, which has made more hardware demands, but there is more room for hardware makers to innovate than rivals such as Apple and rim.

Microsoft has adopted a strategy similar to that of mobile phones in the Xbox gaming business. But Ballmer said that in the future, different prices and configurations of Xbox consoles will have a different look.

Mr Ballmer said Microsoft wanted to help drive the development of different cloud computing services, and that cloud services were not patented by Microsoft and 4 other companies, and that any user could deploy their own cloud services. Microsoft may be willing to help some organizations run their own cloud computing environments because Microsoft does not offer similar services.

For businesses and researchers, the potential benefits of cloud computing are high, Ballmer said. ' Getting the poor out of poverty means they will consume more energy, ' he said. ' We need to accelerate the pace of technological innovation before tackling the problem of climate change. ' With the use of public cloud services, researchers are better able to experiment and analyze more data.

The cloud computing model will also bring new opportunities for businesses. For example, a business would have only the resources it needed to deliver products to local customers, but with cloud services, it would be able to deliver products to more targeted customers, paying for computing costs on the resources they use, without having to build expensive data centers upfront.