Showing posts with label microsoft. Show all posts
Showing posts with label microsoft. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 28, 2008

The Cloud of Unknowing clears a little, maybe


"Cloud computing is ultimately going to be, do you trust this provider to have more to lose than I have to lose as a company if they mess me up?" Ozzie said in an interview with CNET News

Ray Ozzie, Microsoft's chief software architect gets in on the "trust" thing. From CNET

Friday, October 10, 2008

Virtual worlds proliferating


Sony and Microsoft are poised to do battle in virtual worlds.

The console kids both announced Second Life-style virtual environments at the Tokyo Game Show today. Both games show striking similarities to Linden Lab's creation



PC Authority for more.

Tuesday, September 23, 2008

The Promiscuous Shopper?


For us, it’s like the modern way to do retail. This way, we can travel with the store and try out different neighborhoods. It’s like we are trying out the relationship before we marry.

Lisli moves into moving retail.


And Microsoft moves into Tents.
Luckily, Sean had some spare decommissioned servers we could put in a rack. So, like good Boy Scouts, we installed this rack under a large metal framed tent behind his data center in the fuel yard.

Here are some pictures of our setup. First, a couple of shots of our tent, nestling in the corner of the fuel yard. Sean coined the phrase “Tent City” to refer to our efforts.

And gets Nicholas Carr thinking.