Will Microsoft's next 1 billion dollar business be a cloud or large data product?

Beijing Time March 13 News, according to foreign media reports, Microsoft is currently determining the most likely to become its next 1 billion dollar business applications, cloud computing and large data products.

Currently, Microsoft has more than 10 unique products or services that have an annual revenue of more than $1 billion, including Windows, Office, Xbox, SQL Server, System Center, Unified Communications, SharePoint, development tools, Dynamics (ERP & CRM), as well as online display and search ads, in which SharePoint revenue in 2012 has actually exceeded 2 billion dollars.

So what does Microsoft's sales team see in the next 1 billion dollar business? Microsoft's sales, marketing and services Group (SMSG) is responsible for creating the next 1 billion dollar business for Microsoft, and the group's incubation team, published in January 2013 by Microsoft's Carrers website, covers the following products or services that are likely to become Microsoft's next 1 billion dollar business. They are:

Windows Azure: Microsoft public Cloud Business;

Windows Intune: Microsoft's Device Management/Security service, currently the core of managing Windows RT and Windows Phone 8 devices;

Bing Map: Microsoft's Map service;

Storsimple:storsimple is the cloud storage service that Microsoft acquired last year;

Perceptive Pixel:perceptive Pixel is Microsoft's 2012 acquisition of large touch screen technology vendors;

Parallel Data Warehouse: Microsoft's Parallel Processing Data Warehouse application, directly with Hadoop integration.

"The task of the global incubation team is to launch these new businesses, build, accelerate and make them the mainstream of Microsoft's business," the job posting said. ”

Microsoft's server and Tools division is increasingly the birthplace of Microsoft's 1 billion dollar business, with Azure, storsimple and parallel data warehousing operations coming from the division.

(Responsible editor: The good of the Legacy)