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What happened in 2012? Windows 8 Whether you regard it as the beginning of the end for Windows, or a moment of rebirth, for me it was the year of Windows 8. Microsoft’s new Windows is fascinating on several levels: as a bold strategic move to make a desktop operating system into a tablet operating …continue reading Android up, Apple down, Microsoft so near, so far: 2012 in review Last week Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos spoke at a “Fireside Chat” with AWS (Amazon Web Services) chief Werner Vogels. It was an excellent and inspirational performance from Bezos. If there was a common theme, it was his belief in the merit of low margins, which of necessity keep a business efficient. Low margins …continue reading The disruption of pay as you go hardware – and I do not mean leasing I attended Amazon’s AWS (Amazon Web Services) Update in London. This was not a major news event; more a chance to catch up on what is new with Amazon’s cloud services, the dominant force in cloud computing infrastructure. One thing that caught my interest is the speed which which Amazon is rolling out new features. …continue reading Catching up with Amazon’s cloud services I set up Windows 8 on my desktop PC, accepting the default Do Not Track setting. This is still set: However I noticed Amazon ads served by Google/DoubleClick on a third-party site that reflected my recent activity on Amazon. I clicked the Privacy link on the ad (which links to Amazon rather than Google) …continue reading IE10 and Do Not Track: ineffective with Amazon ads Amazon has announced a new product in its Amazon Web Services cloud suite. Amazon Glacier is designed for archiving. According to the service description, you get redundant storage over “multiple facilities and on multiple devices within each facility” with regular data integrity checks, giving annual durability which Amazon works out somehow as 99.999999999%. Storage pricing …continue reading Amazon Glacier: archiving on demand at low prices Amazon RDS for Microsoft SQL Server offers cloud instances of SQL Server. Amazon’s offering even supports “License Mobility”, Microsoft jargon that lets volume licensing customers use an existing SQL Server license for an Amazon’s instance. But how does Amazon’s cloud SQL Server compare with Microsoft’s own offering, SQL Database running on Azure? Peter Marriott has …continue reading Microsoft SQL Azure versus SQL Server on Amazon AWS I am at the Cloud Computing World Forum in London where one of the highlights was a keynote yesterday from Amazon CTO Werner Vogels. Amazon, oddly enough, does not have a stand here; yet the company dominates the IAAS (Infrastructure as a service) market and has moved beyond that into more PAAS (Platform as a …continue reading Amazon web service APIs: a kind of cloud standard? Microsoft has published its latest financials. Here is my at-a-glance summary: Quarter ending March 31st 2012 vs quarter ending March 31st 2011, $millions Segment Revenue Change Profit Change Client (Windows + Live) 4624 +177 2952 +160 Server and Tools 4572 +386 1738 +285 Online 707 +40 -479 +297 Business (Office) 5814 +485 3770 +457 Entertainment …continue reading Microsoft results: old business model still humming, future a concern QCon London ended yesterday. It was the biggest London QCon yet, with around 1200 developers and a certain amount of room chaos, but still a friendly atmosphere and a great opportunity to catch up with developers, vendors, and industry trends. Microsoft was near-invisible at QCon. There was a sparsely attended Azure session, mainly I would …continue reading Microsoft’s platform nearly invisible at QCon London 2012 |
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