Techno Babble

There are lots of reports on the web related to the recent Microsoft Professional Developers Conference (PDC). This conference atracts leading-edge developers who want to learn about the future direction of Microsoft products. Here’s my take on a couple of the topics and the location of some useful links for further information.

Microsoft Azure is an operating system for the “cloud”.

The closest comparison appears to be with the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) – a web service that provides resizable compute capacity in the “cloud” which is designed to make web-scale computing easier for developers. (ref. http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/ )

Microsoft Azure is a web-tier offering, for Windows in the Cloud and provides

• virtualized computation
• a shared storage system
• an automated service managment system

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So you’ve always had this brilliant idea for the perfect PC but nobody would listen ?

Perhaps they will now.

ASUS and Intel have created wepc.com where you can go and share your ideas – ASUS will evaluate your concepts and possibly incorporate features into a future notebook PC.

if you’re interested contribute your ideas at:

http://www.wepc.com/