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Is Microsoft’s Head in the Cloud?

This is a superb article that helps try and explain to the already well educated in the area of the internet and computers how thing might be in 5-10 years. And I truly believe it will be that soon. It's been very noticeable over the past few years what Google is trying to do. I never knew that this whole concept was called Cloud Computing and am a bit scepitcal of it's label. However, the idea and the goal of "Cloud Computing" is pretty much the next evolutionary step in the world of computing. It's obvious. At least if you think about it anyway.

I've long been a back of Google winning this war but you have persuaded me that Microsoft's intentions aren't necessarily the act of a desperately wounded animal. They have a serious amount of cash and they should use as much as possible right now in order to prepare for the future.

Personally I see the future through web portals. And in that sense Microsoft have an advantage. I see us clicking on our web portal through which ever device we want (be it oven, remote control, phone/mp3 player, laptop or car) and everything that we own is available to us. You don't really need google for that. In fact you don't need microsoft either. You need a host that will hold links to all of the online software programs that you have.

I think the online future only has room for big players if they buy all of the smaller ones. And that can't keep happening. It's all very exciting.

How Google Can Put Salesforce.com Out of Business

I've been saying something similar to this for almost a year to my friends. As far as I'm concerned Microsoft should be very worried about Google long term. What google is doing is building up an amazing portfolio of applications that are all free. Now the usual tactic would be to make people reliant on them and then start charging but I don't see this as google's tactics. Basically because of what's going to start happening over the next few years.

We are starting to see huge possibilities in terms of being able to log onto your own computer from any internet connected computer in the world. This means something very very big for Microsoft. It means that we will not need a generic operating system on all computers. If you can log into your own operating system at home from anywhere in the world and use that all the time then it doesn't matter what your friend or internet shop has on their computers. You can therefore have your own bespoke OS. I think google are aiming to provide everyone with their own internet based bespoke OS that is based on all the free apps that they offer but is by no means exclusive to them. All for free. They just continue to make money from advertising.

Then all computers in the future will come with a very basic operating system that can log onto the net allowing you log on to your own operating system. Then you will be able to choose to down load the operating system to the computers hard drive if it is your own computer but keep it on the net if it is someone else's computer.

Long term Microsoft will not be selling operating systems because a computer won't need one as such. Vista will be their last great OS.