October 2, 2008
It would appear from what a few people are reporting on their blogs that Microsoft is going public with their first version of their implementation of the Windows Cloud OS. While that probably won’t be the actual name upon delivery the fact is that Steve Ballmer says it’s going to happen. This of course has - as usual - brought out the Microsoft naysayers hot on the trail of some new stuff to slap Microsoft around with.
Much of the current discussion right now is stemming out of a post by The Register where they quote Steve Ballmer from a speech he gave in London. It was there that he talked briefly about how they would be introducing Windows Cloud; its temporary name, at this year’s Professional Developers Conference (PDC) in about four weeks. The thing is as Joe Wilcox pointed out, this information was announced on an even earlier date (Sept. 8th) by Bob Muglia.
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September 29, 2008
Let’s get this part out of the way right now. I don’t agree with Richard Stallman at all when it comes to his pronouncements about open source software. When he gets on his high horse about how OSS is going to save the world and is the cure for all our evilness I want to run screaming like a girl into the night. In some ways I think he has caused as much damage to the software world as those people who he rails non-stop against. That isn’t to say that I am against open source software - I’m not. It has its place in our computing ecosphere just as commercial software does. I just think that his maddening self-rightousness about how all commercial software is evil and the only solution is for everyone to use OSS pisses me off.
That said, I read the piece today on the Guardian site by Bobbie Johnson where Richard came out swinging. In the interview he said that the idea of using web-based programs like Gmail was worse than stupidity
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