The cloud will have a huge catalytic effect on computer development

The development of technology is always constant innovation, in the progress of the stable development. From the very early era of integrated computers to the current PC era; now it is about to enter the cloud era represented by "cloud computing."

PC created, created Microsoft; Cloud era, created Google. Unlike Google's move to move all its calculations and applications to the "cloud," Microsoft is proposing a "cloud-end computing" balancing philosophy: "clouds" and terminals will all take over some of the computing and applications.

Microsoft proposed that cloud-end computing be based on the premise that although the balance determined by Moore's Law and WINTEL architecture is about to break in the "cloud computing" era, a new balance of hardware, networking and computing is emerging: endpoint performance , The development of the network, can not keep up with the pace of content development, the three always maintain a dynamic balance is the best effect.

Zhang Yaqin, Microsoft's senior vice president and chairman of Microsoft (China) Co., Ltd., in an interview with China Business News commented that it is precisely because of the above balance that data will be concentrated after entering the age of the Internet-centric era, but not all are concentrated : A lot of data may exist in different data centers - "Cloud", a lot of computing may be in the terminal.

Massive acquisition of Yahoo, Microsoft is to meet the "cloud era" an important step in the challenge. However, at a turning point in time, Microsoft at the crossroads of planning how to plan for the next decade will determine whether it is still standing in the forefront of industry or eventually disappearing from people's eyes.

"Cloud computing": bring big changes in the industry

Know the decision strategy. Faced with the coming "cloud computing" era, Microsoft's understanding of the development of the industry also determines the future direction of its "software + services" strategy and Zhang Yaqin that the next decade, the most important industry changes will be reflected in five aspect.

First, the information industry from the PC era to the Internet era, and the industry will also be from the PC era as the center to data-centric, who has the most, the most intelligent, the most structured and most relevant data, who have the advantage.

The second revolution in the industry is reflected in the computing revolution brought about by the Internet. The PC functions and definitions will change dramatically. Although PCs remain an important tool, PCs will move toward PC +: personal computing power into mobile phones, TVs, Cars, sensors, etc., as long as there is electricity in the era of computing.

A third change is that the computing architecture has moved from one "end" of the PC or server to the "cloud" + "end", or "C + C" (Cloud + Client) in the past.

The fourth change is that the business model of software enterprises moves from software to software + service, ie "S + S."

The fifth change is that the market base will serve the first billion people (1B) over the past few decades to serve more users.

In the past decade, some users, mainly in developed and developing countries, have experienced the benefits of information technology and the Internet, and more emerging markets in the next 10 years will appreciate the benefits of "cloud computing."

"Due to the development of" cloud computing, "more emerging markets, including China, India and other users are not necessarily the first to come into contact with PCs and perhaps mobile phones." Ya-Qin Zhang believes that "cloud computing" has been able to PC good The application of mobile phones, television and other terminal equipment, so that users in developing countries to experience the "cloud computing" magic.