On Thursday, I went to see Microsoft present their new Azure cloud computing platform. Microsoft are arriving late to the party here with Amazon and Google well ahead of them. They are however, arriving with a different proposition and they have certainly learnt from the experiences of the two major players in the cloud computing market. Microsoft are pushing a Software + Services message rather than Software as a Service. What is the difference? Microsoft see this as putting the processing in the right place for the situation. Processing that moves, ubiquitously from desktop to server to cloud to suit the need and purpose.
This is a bold vision and a bold claim and one that their competitors do not even try to address. This maybe for good reason as Microsoft found out that evening. The live demos, only a simple text "Hello Cloud" application failed spectacularly. I never thought I would hear these words live on stage "On no, the cloud has crashed"!
Microsoft stressed many times over the course of the evening that this was early release code; they needn't have as this was clear to all 2500 developers in the conference centre!
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