Microsoft: The Cloud Can’t Be Slave to the Past
October 8, 2013
Grazed from NYTimes. Author: Quentin Hardy.
Microsoft will soon have a range of products to beef up its cloud computing business. According to the guy running the show, however, the most important thing is not what Microsoft is selling, but how it was made. “The big call we made was that my 10,000-person organization focused on one thing – building software that powers Windows Azure,” said Satya Nadella, Microsoft’s executive vice president for cloud and enterprise. Azure is the name of Microsoft’s cloud. “The software for Azure runs on the server, not the other way around.”
That is actually a big deal for a company with a lot of legacy business. All too often, as when Microsoft went into phones and tablets with an approach that stressed its personal computer operating system, the pressure is to make the dominant existing technology the center of the new world, whether or not it belongs there…
“You can rightfully criticize us on mobile and tablets,” Mr. Nadella said. “What does Windows Azure have to do with Windows Server?” he said, naming the older server product. “Nothing, besides the name ‘Windows.’ Azure is a new operating system, designed not just for our cloud, but for anybody to build a cloud with.”…
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