Microsoft into the cloud
At her ZDNet blog, Mary Jo Foley relates how a Microsoft team broke away from the Windows desktop paradigm and began to develop for Internet applications (the cloud). She begins:
What led Microsoft — a company that has spent a good part of the past decade-plus protecting the Windows franchise at the expense of the Web — to finally create an infrastructure that would support not just Windows developers, but also Web programmers? And how did a company known for its slipping dates more than making its shipping dates manage to build a cloud-computing platform that developers could begin test-driving in less than two years?
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