Live Blogging at PDC - Microsoft says it will offer ALL Enterprise software online

john.mullinax — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 20:14:00 GMT

Not moving to simple software as a service, but providing a choice of on premise or subscription from the cloud. Ray Ozzie calls has called this Server-service symmetry. And the online services will not just be “fixed” applications, but in the future will be platforms that support custom solution development. Additionally, hybrid approaches will be possible that lets people run different parts of an application in different places – servers on-premise, clients, phones, and cloud. And do this securely in a way that let’s customers use their own identity management solutions.

To my mind, a this represents an inflection point for the industry, Microsoft, and for our customers and partners.

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So bad, it’s good?

john.mullinax — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 22:46:00 GMT

Ok, so you may or may not have been a fan of the Bill and Jerry ads. Either way, Jon and Neil point to something surely far worse – so bad, in fact, it’s absurdly funny! Don’t believe me? Think boy band singing about computers – and not in a Bill Gates kind of way, but in a Ron Burgundy kind of way.

Take a look.

“Let me use directory D: to unlock your GPU!” ?!?

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Beyond | IT : PDC

Live Blogging at PDC - Microsoft says it will offer ALL Enterprise software online

So bad, it’s good?