Comments on: Week in review: Microsoft's cloudy future

Microsoft is planning an ambitious makeover to its Internet services, the E3 game confab focuses more on entertainment, and what lays ahead in Apple's iFuture is anyone's guess.

[Thought Police OMalley]

CloudOS == IBM JavaOS and OS/2

Isn't it really obvious that Microsoft CloudOS is based on IBM's JavaOS and OS/2?

Everyone knows that Windows NT was based on the OS/2 codebase, and that Microsoft steals ideas from other companies because they cannot innovate themselves out of a paper bag. What they cannot steal, they buy out companies that can do what Microsoft cannot.

Gates you're a bore, we heard this before, it is hot as hell in Redmond! Someone ought to open up Windows!

OS/2 lives, OS/2 is the borg, resistance is futile, you will be assimilated!

[nonicks]

...even if NT = O/S2

.. how does it matters.. even if NT = O/S codebase...

Who actually developed it?

It was initally M$ developing O/S2 for IBM on contract. When IBM couldn't market it well.. M$ tookover it ... built an empire on it.

Is it really M$'s problem if other company's can't convert their beautiful ideas into bug bucks.

Anyhow... it's since ages... invention is always supposed to be patroned by able(s).

Im this case.. M$ is patronising invention by buying it..

makes sense... isn't it!!

[Fil0403]

CloudOS == Microsoft OS/2

Yeah, it's kinda obvious the part about OS/2, given the company that originally developed it was Microsoft itself.

Everyone knows that OS/2 was developed by Microsoft, and that Microsoft capitalizes on ideas other companies weren't smart enough to capitalize on and innovate themselves too and have proved that with Xbox Live, VirtualEarth 3D, Surface, among others.

What they cannot invent, they buy just like Google does and you don't seem to care nearly as much (I wonder why is that...).

ABMs (Anything But Microsofts) you're a bore, we heard this before, it is hot as hell in ABMs' planet!

Someone ought to open up these short-minded peoples' minds. Windows lives, Windows is the leader, resistance is futile, you will always have to use Windows!

[clpdan]

Will we ever learn?

Instead of saying foolish things like "Microsoft also will create
core infrastructure services..." why don't you say, "Microsoft
CLAIMS it will create..."

You would think that after years and years of getting burned my
the Microsoft promise of the day you guys would learn to use
that word 'claims' and close with 'we'll write more about it when
we actually see it.'

Microsoft strings the tech sector along with their promises of the
future. Please. Microsoft is so yesterday.

Get an Intel Mac and you can run Mac OS X, Linux or if you
must, Windows.

[wildchild_plasma_gyro]

PDS

At the moment we do face the possibility of being got through flaws at via hacking setups.
One of the fisrt things that could make use of an advanced cloud would be an advanced PDS(Packet denial service).
Basically a netowrk that knows enough about what about to hit to lower surges during a DOS attack.

[JCPayne]

Google should release their Goobuntu O/S

Google should sell their Goobuntu Operating System to the public and stop hording it all to themselves.....

[JCPayne]

Google should release their Goobuntu O/S

Google should sell their Goobuntu Operating System to the public and stop hoarding it all to themselves.....

[ethana2]

Sell?

I think you may have been looking for a different term. Still, I've been wanting to see something like this for a long time.

Google needs to endorse Ubuntu on their main search page, and let people know that windows and osx aren't the only systems out there. Furthermore, I'd just love to see google start an all-out war with microsoft like that. Can you imagine that? Google starts shipping custom ubuntu discs aimed at killing microsoft's cash cow, and assigns developers to open office and firefox projects...

That would be the most exciting thing since the release of the tickless kernel ;)

(typed in ubuntu/firefox/colemak)

[Fil0403]

You should stop dreaming

Google doesn't use Windows and Madonna is a man.

[rubenerd]

Mistake

It was OS/2, not O/S2. Whoops.

[Fil0403]

Week in review: Microsoft's usual bashing

"People do not like someone else controlling their assets," wrote one reader to the News.com TalkBack forum. "They would much rather be responsible for their own actions."

Cool. People do not like having to pay for things or go to work. They would much rather have everything for free and not go to work. What a logic. I'm a genius.


Regarding Apple patents, and after reading user comments here, one can only conclude patents are only a bad thing when is Microsoft patenting something; if it's Apple I guess it's just them rightfully defending themselves. Interesting.


Regarding the iPhone Nano, I wonder what features they are going to take out of an already feature-weak expensive smartphone-wannabe like iPhone to get a lower price.

[dornbear]

Liar, Liar, Pants On Fire

If there is one lesson we have learned from Microsoft, that is it.