{"id":5435,"date":"2008-10-02T10:16:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-02T08:16:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-10-02T10:16:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-02T08:16:00","slug":"microsoft-to-launch-windows-cloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/5435-microsoft-to-launch-windows-cloud.html","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft to launch Windows Cloud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer yesterday revealed the first details of a new Windows operating system that is being called &quot;Windows Cloud&quot; for now. Speaking in London yesterday, Ballmer said that the OS will be aimed at developers writing cloud-computing applications, InfoWorld reports (<a href=\"http:\/\/snurl.com\/40kf5\">http:\/\/snurl.com\/40kf5<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Cloud computing is a term used to describe an environment in which applications are made available through a browser and the actual processing of data is done on remote servers over the Internet. <\/p>\n<p>Google is one of the companies that has already embraced this form of computing with its Google Docs, GMail, Google Calendar and similar online applications. <\/p>\n<p>Although Ballmer didn&#8217;t give out a lot of details, he did say that Windows Cloud would be separate from Windows 7, the operating system Microsoft is developing to succeed Windows Vista. <\/p>\n<p>One thing that Ballmer did say was that Microsoft does not expect to move its Office productivity suite online and remove it from the desktop. But the company does envision a &quot;lite&quot; version that will allow users to edit Word documents and the like from any Internet-connected PC.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=138257\">Discuss this article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft is planning a cloud-computing version of its operating system<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5435"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}