Ballmer Talks of Rumored ‘Windows Cloud’
by Wyatt WalterSteve Ballmer talked yesterday in London about a new ‘Windows Cloud’ OS that will be announced later this month. The OS has been alluded to in the past as being code named ‘Red Dog’. The OS will be based upon the Windows Server offering replication across multiple sites, ‘management modelling’, and an ‘SOA model’. If we’re lucky it’ll be a spin-off of zones in Solaris offering multi-tenant Windows environments. If we’re not lucky, we’ll get Windows with built-in HA clustering on top of Hyper-V.
Ballmer took the opportunity to take a shot at Google. He became yet another calling Google Chrome a web operating system. He too said that Chrome was aimed at competing with Windows. I won’t divulge into my opinion on people who think that.. What’s odd is that Linux has been around for well over 10 years and finally just a few years ago Microsoft actually acknowledged it as a competitor. Google Chrome isn’t even a similar product, let alone as mature and Ballmer claims it’s going to compete.
Ballmer also confirmed the rumors of another OS in the works from Microsoft codenamed Midori. Midori is rumored to not be based upon the Windows kernel at all, though Ballmer stated, “It’s merely a research project”.
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