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The H link is broken n/t
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, January 11 2013 @ 11:16 AM EST
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You either want software freedom or you don't.
Authored by: MDT on Friday, January 11 2013 @ 11:58 AM EST
If you are a proponent of Freedom in Software, that has to
include the freedom for someone to use Microsoft's (or
Apple's, or Sun's, or HP's, or IBM's, or any other
proprietary providers) software, both to use as an
application or an OSS, and also the freedom to run OSS on
those platforms.

If you do not, then you are not really about the freedom of
people to do with their software what they want, you are
anti-establishment.

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MDT

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Open?
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, January 11 2013 @ 08:01 PM EST
Its not clear what that's supposed to mean in this context...

Just throwing it into a sentence doesn't make something open, and after going
through the article and following a few links to see what turned up, I couldn't
find anything that pointed to open.

Sounds like yet another case of "it means what M$ says it means, whatever
that is."

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VM Depot brings more open source to Microsoft's Azure
Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, January 12 2013 @ 07:02 PM EST

I interpret it as meaning that Microsoft Azure isn't getting a lot of customers for Microsoft's own products. They put a lot of money and effort into a "platform cloud" and built a lot of data centres. However, the result seems to mostly have been low margin business doing things like being a secondary content distribution network for Apple.

If you look at the "cloud", so far it's dominated by Amazon's basic infrastructure cloud. And it's all Linux wherever you look, particularly Ubuntu. If Microsoft can get some of that business by hosting Linux, it's better than having data centres full of unplugged servers. However, that won't drive Windows and other tied product sales, will it?

From what I've seen so far, I get the impression that Microsoft's Azure cloud efforts are in more trouble than Windows Phone. A failure with Azure could be a much bigger problem for Microsoft than a failure in phones and tablets. Whoever controls the dominant future "cloud" platform is destined to be in the same position that Microsoft occupied by using Windows. By controlling the platform you control the "ecosystem" and set the direction of future software development. It's all slipping through Microsoft's fingers though.

I think that in future when we reflect on the downfall of Microsoft, we will look back on phones and tablets as being a sideshow which distracted Microsoft while the real prize was being won by Amazon and Google.

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