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Is Microsoft Turning Cloud Business into PC Business? This content requires a paid GigaOM Pro subscription

  • Sunday, July 18, 2010

With Windows Azure Appliances, Microsoft looks to be following the OEM path that made the Windows OS so profitable.

I wrote a few weeks ago that “Microsoft taught the world how to succeed in PC and business software, but it might [be] teaching the world how to not succeed in cloud computing.” That’s a fate the company could avoid if it just delivered on a clear vision, and now it looks like Microsoft has decided on that vision: Treat cloud computing like it treated the PC business. (Oh, and it addressed some of those [...]

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