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Garyedwards on 2009-03-18 - Tags no_tag

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What the world is searching for now is the right combination of underlying technologies and some killer apps that will demonstrate that the capabilities of this integrated end-to-end view of the cloud-plus-client will enable things that the world hasn't seen yet. That's what we're focused on here.

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on 2009-03-18 by garyedwards

The "integrated end-to-end view of the cloud-plus-client" describes exactly how Microsoft intends on leveraging their desktop monopoly into the next generation of Web based cloud computing. Microsoft has managed to maintain control over how server side information systems integrate with the MSOffice productivity environment. Looks like they have reserved the high end integration for themselves :) No surprise there, but they paid one hell of a whopping anti-trust cost to pull it off. (Upwards of $14 Billion in settlement costs and fines).

Must be some kind of profits sitting at the end of this cloud plus integrated rich client plot.

Think of it as the successor to the graphical user interface. Microsoft was the company that drove the broad adoption of the GUI by putting Word and Excel on the early version of Windows. That became the killer app that brought us personal computing. Now we can see the outline of the NUI, just as we could see the outline of Windows coming. And yet you have to figure out, what are the killer apps?