Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 1st Oct 2008 21:30 UTC
Even though I'm still not quite sure what "the cloud" actually is (it's the internet, right?), Microsoft has just announced that it will be releasing 'Windows Cloud' at its Professional Developers Conference later this month. Windows Cloud (a temporary codename) will apparently be based on Windows Server, but with new features and characteristics. Steve Ballmer made the announcement at a Microsoft-sponsored conference for IT managers in London.
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RE: Comment by KermitTheFragger
by TObYv on Fri 3rd Oct 2008 07:01
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Agreed. Although this cloud computing seems little more than client server with a html face. In about 20-30 years we count see a true plan 9 model on a large scale, email and web apps distributed across multiple serivce providers, msn as data store, yahoo as cpu etc, mounting a remote service tranparently, on boot, on any platform or device. Services not in the cloud, but right in the ether, some kind of 'ether net' i suppose? 
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2008-06-12
This proves even more that plan9 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan9) was far ahead of its time.