Microsoft unveils ’the future of computing’

the increasing speed and prevalence of broadband networks
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Well that rules us out from MS-Cloud (tm). What a lot of dreadful marketing waffle that chap vomits up.
 
Oh please, please please mine my data for me, keep it for me and look through all of it, please.
 
The Future Of Computing?????

This is finally heading the way cell phones, DSTV decoders etc have been since its inception....... If you do not pay someone a "rental" your device means nothing.:eek:

You will not be able to use your own computer unless you pay someone (MS??) for "services".................... nice annuity income for them, and little chance to pirate some ones software. In addition your usage can be controlled, and "they" have access to your information, and your where-abouts can be established should you be on the move. You will also be told what sort of platform you can or can not use........ You may even be given some hardware but will have to rent everything (services) else..... and nothing will work without a SIM like ID in the hardware. Oh and yes in SA we are so into those 24 month contracts - typical 3rd world.:sick:

Give MS enough time and ALL will believe they are doing the world a favour - again.:D The Future Of Computing?????
 
Someone remind me of one thing M$ ever drove in this industry...
AFAIK they tend to use ideas from others...
So excuse me when I don't listen to M$' ideas of the 'future' of anything.
 
Belikoff says the future of technology at work will be a combination of local software on client PCs or on-premise servers, along with services available in huge online data servers known as the ’cloud’.
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So the "future" of technology is, essentially, to largely reinvent what the UNIX world offered 15 or 20 years ago already (by design), using inefficient protocols and bloated spaghetti component architectures that have been tacked onto underlying protocols and software etc. never originally intended for such purposes at all. I'm so excited to be living in these cutting-edge times.
 
bunch of waffling - article was so boring!. every second word was "Service"
 
I think this is the only working strategy that MS can think of to kill piracy. What would be interesting is the effect it would have on Linux users. People would want to flock to Linux and Open source once they see MS charges in perpetuity.
 
Turtle said:
So the "future" of technology is, essentially, to largely reinvent what the UNIX world offered 15 or 20 years ago already (by design), using inefficient protocols and bloated spaghetti component architectures that have been tacked onto underlying protocols and software etc. never originally intended for such purposes at all.
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When you say it like that you make it sound like a bad thing :)
 
bloat

..and they're going to do all this with a non-re-entrant operating system that needs vast server farms to keep it staggering along, no file catalog, memory mismanagement on the grand scale, a security model which can only be described as bizarre, and a DBMS with architectural holes you could drive an oil tanker through. Snore! Dear Santa, please may I have a mainframe for Christmas?
 
noxibox said:
When you say it like that you make it sound like a bad thing :)
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Haha :) (Just to be clear, I meant MS's solution is grotesquely inefficient, as compared to the UNIX-based solutions.)

This sort of waffle is pure marketing BS, it's not supposed to be clear or make sense, it's *supposed to* be opaque, while simultaneously giving the impression that something AMAZING and truly visionary is coming from Microsoft in the near future - God knows what through all that waffle, but just know, it's AMAZING. It's been their marketing model from day one - hugely oversell and hugely underdeliver (the opposite of Apple, who usually never even announce products until they're ready). MS portray themselves as some kind of visionaries pioneering the field, when in fact they're always pushing poor implementations of very old ideas. But they give the impression of a 'solid roadmap' so manager types can feel they're buying into something that has a future. The UNIX world, on the other hand, is 'pure tech' - they already solved almost all of these problems, decades ago, and then keep entirely quiet about it.
 
Turtle said:
Haha :) (Just to be clear, I meant MS's solution is grotesquely inefficient, as compared to the UNIX-based solutions.)

This sort of waffle is pure marketing BS, it's not supposed to be clear or make sense, it's *supposed to* be opaque, while simultaneously giving the impression that something AMAZING and truly visionary is coming from Microsoft in the near future - God knows what through all that waffle, but just know, it's AMAZING. It's been their marketing model from day one - hugely oversell and hugely underdeliver (the opposite of Apple, who usually never even announce products until they're ready). MS portray themselves as some kind of visionaries pioneering the field, when in fact they're always pushing poor implementations of very old ideas. But they give the impression of a 'solid roadmap' so manager types can feel they're buying into something that has a future. The UNIX world, on the other hand, is 'pure tech' - they already solved almost all of these problems, decades ago, and then keep entirely quiet about it.
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My thoughts exactly! This article is nothing more that M$ marketing, which means nothing. Not even a single mention of a feature or product... WTF?

It doed sound like they are trying to follow google's approach.
 
Turtle said:
MS portray themselves as some kind of visionaries pioneering the field, when in fact they're always pushing poor implementations of very old ideas.
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Precisely! LOL! They are always plodding along a few steps behind.
 
So effectively the future of the computer according to M$ is to have the O/S online where you can control it...
Talk about being paranoid about piracy!
 
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