Why is Bill Gates Back At Microsoft?

[eriko]

I just don't see the point of the cloud my music collection is only 20 gigabytes, most people stream videos, My manga and comic collection is under 20 gigs. My game collection is never going to go over 2 terabytes and I would never put a game n the cloud my whole problem with F2P games is how much of the game is in the cloud and not on your p.c. killing any modding one could do with it.Also cloud gaming is terrible look at Sim City just a horrible idea,Recorded video gameplays only use 150 gigs of space and that is because I am stubborn and still use fraps.Finally why create a extra step.I get het 25 megabit per second transfer speeds max with my internet which is not close to fast enough for the cloud transferring large amounts of date from 1 computer to another would be faster with a outdated standard like usb 2.0. So in general the cloud is just pointless why would some one use it you don't go and put files on your friends computer for back up so why use a strangers. Plus the personal storage you yourself can get makes the cloud just pointless.

And what about the rest of the world?Out here in Asia, international connectivity is usually ALWAYS less than 2Mb/s down, and I won't quote the upload, lest I give you nightmares.So Cloud STORAGE, is simply off limits for some parts of the world.If however, you are talking about hosting your applications in it, well that would be possible, but you'd still be constrained by the aforementioned speeds, and network reliability issues (of which there are many) too.

 

[Grandmastersexsay]

Lol, Asia has by far the highest average bandwidth of any continent.

 

[ethanolson]

Everybody loves Windows 7. It's the last OS that Bill Gates framed. He had nothing to do with Windows 8.I think we all know why Bill Gates is back in the picture.

 

[burkhartmj]

I wish people would stop being douches by trying to correct people about cloud computing. For 99.99% of the population, the cloud refers to remote storage, not virtual machines.

We're not talking about virtual machines, and Microsoft isn't either. Microsoft wants a Google business model where they make their money from targeted advertising.

This isn't even mildly true. The CONSUMER market thinks of 'The Cloud" as Dropbox and Drive, but the enterprise [which is Satya's actual focus] looks at Cloud computing, and local cloud technologies [my own workplace uses Windows File Sync, which is a local cloud system built by MS]. Stop thinking in the small terms of consumer perspective, and suddenly the actual abilities of cloud computing become pretty damn limitless. Even the beloved streaming services that allows consumers to avoid local/cloud storage relies heavily on Amazon's cloud-based web services because of the inherent load-balancing they can manage.

 

[Christopher Shaffer]

I think it means that Balmer almost killed the company, didn't understand what "unified architecture" really means and now Gates will swoop in and be the puppeteer to bring it back up from the brink. Maybe he can even save the Xboner.

 

[sunflier]

The same happened when Apple was spinning in tech-nowhere-land. What did Apple do? The brought back Steve Jobs and now look at Apple's success. Love them or hate them Bill and Steve are genius innovators.

 

[sunflier]

The same happened when Apple was spinning in tech-nowhere-land. What did Apple do? The brought back Steve Jobs and now look at Apple's success. Love them or hate them Bill and Steve are genius innovators.

 

[sunflier]

The same happened when Apple was spinning in tech-nowhere-land. What did Apple do? The brought back Steve Jobs and now look at Apple's success. Love them or hate them Bill and Steve are genius innovators.

 

[Blaise170]

Bill Gates as technology advisor? What I'm hearing is that they might actually make Windows 9 good!But since it's Microsoft we're talking about, there is a chance for disappointment.

Well if we look at the history of Windows, it is very likely that Windows 9 will be one of the best yet. All the way back to Windows 97 which was a hit, then the failure of ME. Windows XP was amazing, then Vista flopped. Windows 7 is even better than XP, but then Windows 8 has issues as well (I don't hate Win8, but I prefer Win7).

 

[randomizer]

FOR GODS SAKE PEOPLE. Cloud doesn't mean just storage. it refers to cloud computing as well. you can use cloud computing and keep all your data localy and private just fine. See this is what i mean by marketed wrong. People don't even understand what the cloud is used for.

"The cloud" is a vague, catch-all term. It's better to avoid cloud speak and refer to things more specifically; ie. STorage as a Service, Software as a Service, Infrastructure as a Service, etc.

And that is just it - the security is absolutely NOT in place.NSA have got to all the corporations. Make your own NAS solution, and lock it right down.

If you encrypt your data before shipping it off then it's just as safe as your NAS, if not safer. Someone can break into your house and steal your NAS. Much harder to do that in a datacentre. Availability is also a security concern, so even if your data is encrypted on the NAS it's useless if you can't access it.

 

[BuggyFunBunny]

The more we find out about the Target breech, the more it looks like Windows and M$ infrastructure is to blame. Windows will never have much presence in Enterprise Cloud, that's the venue for *nix.

 

[Duckhunt]

The problem we have is people like Bill gates fail to speak up and tell how it is. We need fiber optic all over. We need 10Gps in the public areas and 1 Gps in the home. So we can ramp out the knowledge economy. Get more things done. But no. Bill failed. Instead we get folk like Uncle fester who is a fool. They don't speak up for these important developments.

 

[Rhinofart]

Anyone putting info in the cloud is a moron. If you like your information being PRIVATE keep it IN HOUSE. Period. Hire or train good IT people instead of outsourcing your security. For a company like Netflix etc ok I get it. You're serving data all day, not really trying to protect it like credit cards, etc. But for personal or company info to be in the clouds? You should be fired for being stupid and have no business being in IT. It will never be hack proof if it's in the cloud.

Toms keeps pitching this cloud crap, and it is ridiculous. I pay no attention to the IT posts now because of this. It's almost as if their IT side here, is paid to pitch clouds, cloud certs etc. STUPID. Apparently I'm not alone, as most of those posts have ZERO comments on them... Well, because any decent IT guy knows you don't want ANY data in the cloud that you actually want protected.

MS heading to the clouds...LOL. This tells me one thing: My comments that OpenGL, WebGL, HTML5 etc will take over gaming via Android, linux, SteamOS etc are correct and MS is losing the desktop along with Intel. They are now totally defensive and reactive just like any empire who has sat too long on the throne and became complacent (IE Buying nokia to sell your OS because everyone has android which is free - too late, just like buying yahoo to catch google - two losers, BING/YAHOO don't make a winner). I look forward to the new regime which will also usher in a HUGE user base of units for game devs to make money on and hopefully better/LONGER games at some point (less risk with so many units to aim at). We should get more unique titles eventually instead of Call of Duty 65/Battlefield 39 or whatever...LOL. Little indie devs can make some great games that will make them millionaires. Write for the API's I mentioned instead of DirectX and you can port everywhere cheaply and easily which helps the little guys get on the map in a way that they never could years before. These API's allow you to shoot at a few Billion units rather than a few hundred million PC's, a few hundred million consoles (~85mil each and all needing a different version and far more coding) etc. It is far easier for them to make money without WINTEL/DirectX being dominant.

First games to help make windows/Wintel less appealing. Then watch as apps follow making Wintel...Kind of like RIMM etc But I expect both to survive, just my kids or their kids might not even know what windows looks like as they may never see it and may never own an x86 chip.

Like drwho1, I'll build a nas if needed (and am looking finding a great one now). They are cheap enough now, that cloud storage is pointless to me even if I thought it was safe. For around $650 you can get 4x3TB drive and a nas which is more than enough for my needs. Anything outside your house, or outside your business doors is OUT of your control. 2013 the year of hacks? ROFL@clouds futures. Even big companies can't seem to keep data safe inside or outside (I think due to crap IT but whatever), so best to trust yourself and train employees properly. I've been in multiple companies where servers were months out of date on updates etc and management seems to have no clue this is the case, which usually happens when they weren't IT themselves at any point in their careers but just managers in general. Police your IT or get police'd (so to speak) by China hackers etc... 🙁 At this point your IT manager should probably have a background in IT security or servers at least, or prepare to be screwed soon.

AMEN! Absolutely correct in all regards! I don't trust anything in the cloud. I don't even use iCloud to sync my settings between my iDevices.

 

[Rhinofart]

Anyone putting info in the cloud is a moron. If you like your information being PRIVATE keep it IN HOUSE. Period. Hire or train good IT people instead of outsourcing your security. For a company like Netflix etc ok I get it. You're serving data all day, not really trying to protect it like credit cards, etc. But for personal or company info to be in the clouds? You should be fired for being stupid and have no business being in IT. It will never be hack proof if it's in the cloud.

Toms keeps pitching this cloud crap, and it is ridiculous. I pay no attention to the IT posts now because of this. It's almost as if their IT side here, is paid to pitch clouds, cloud certs etc. STUPID. Apparently I'm not alone, as most of those posts have ZERO comments on them... Well, because any decent IT guy knows you don't want ANY data in the cloud that you actually want protected.

MS heading to the clouds...LOL. This tells me one thing: My comments that OpenGL, WebGL, HTML5 etc will take over gaming via Android, linux, SteamOS etc are correct and MS is losing the desktop along with Intel. They are now totally defensive and reactive just like any empire who has sat too long on the throne and became complacent (IE Buying nokia to sell your OS because everyone has android which is free - too late, just like buying yahoo to catch google - two losers, BING/YAHOO don't make a winner). I look forward to the new regime which will also usher in a HUGE user base of units for game devs to make money on and hopefully better/LONGER games at some point (less risk with so many units to aim at). We should get more unique titles eventually instead of Call of Duty 65/Battlefield 39 or whatever...LOL. Little indie devs can make some great games that will make them millionaires. Write for the API's I mentioned instead of DirectX and you can port everywhere cheaply and easily which helps the little guys get on the map in a way that they never could years before. These API's allow you to shoot at a few Billion units rather than a few hundred million PC's, a few hundred million consoles (~85mil each and all needing a different version and far more coding) etc. It is far easier for them to make money without WINTEL/DirectX being dominant.

First games to help make windows/Wintel less appealing. Then watch as apps follow making Wintel...Kind of like RIMM etc But I expect both to survive, just my kids or their kids might not even know what windows looks like as they may never see it and may never own an x86 chip.

Like drwho1, I'll build a nas if needed (and am looking finding a great one now). They are cheap enough now, that cloud storage is pointless to me even if I thought it was safe. For around $650 you can get 4x3TB drive and a nas which is more than enough for my needs. Anything outside your house, or outside your business doors is OUT of your control. 2013 the year of hacks? ROFL@clouds futures. Even big companies can't seem to keep data safe inside or outside (I think due to crap IT but whatever), so best to trust yourself and train employees properly. I've been in multiple companies where servers were months out of date on updates etc and management seems to have no clue this is the case, which usually happens when they weren't IT themselves at any point in their careers but just managers in general. Police your IT or get police'd (so to speak) by China hackers etc... 🙁 At this point your IT manager should probably have a background in IT security or servers at least, or prepare to be screwed soon.

Don't you mean Windows 95, and Then Windows 98. Both of them were pretty good. ME was a horrible disaster. I hated having to install that on clients machines. But, the sad thing is that ME RC3 was awesome! It was stable, and fast. I was honestly excited for the RTM to come out, and when it did, I was crushed. LOL They should have released RC3.