October 19, 2011
Ballmer disses Android as cheap and complex: On The Register, Iain Thomson reports on the exec’s confidence in the Windows Phone. “Speaking at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, an ebullient Ballmer enthused about the forthcoming phones, saying that the new handsets would be as well designed and attractive to consumers as anything Apple could put out. Redmond recognizes that people want their phones to look pretty and was aiming for that target group. He also took time to diss the leading smartphone operating system Android,” he writes. What’s your opinion?
Can cloud bail enterprises out of IT debt?: On ZDNet, Larry Dignan looks at how analysts are addressing the question. “Speaking at the Gartner Symposium in Orlando, Haight said no company will do the clean swap, but the cloud operating model—DevOps in Gartner lingo—will ditch traditional IT. Haight argued that putting “your mess for less” in the cloud won’t fix the IT debt problem. The only way to get out of it will be moving to a cloud operating model and ultimately mixing and matching services,” he writes. What’s your opinion?
Microsoft, Infosys deepen cloud relationship with Office 365: On Talkin’ Cloud, Matthew Weinberger looks at the pairing of companies. ” According to Infosys Cloud Services head Vishnu Bhat, the partnership is a match made in cloud heaven: Infosys brings its customer base, its cloud integration expertise and its range of professional services, while Microsoft makes Windows Azure PaaS, Office 365 cloud productivity and Microsoft Private Cloud solutions (including Windows Server Hyper-V and Microsoft System Center) available,” he writes. What’s your opinion?
