Ozzie wrote that the PC-centric/Server-centric model we have today is beginning to crumble due to its complexity as he asked us to imagine a “post-PC” world.
He wrote: "Complexity kills" and "Complexity sucks the life out of users, developers and IT.”
What’s most amazing about Ozzie’s post is that, although he has just announced he’s leaving, he replaced Bill Gates as Microsoft's Chief Software.
In the blog he stated “. . . I see a great, expansive future for our industry and for our company – a future of amazing, pervasive cloud-centric experiences delivered through a world of innovative devices that surround us.”
How I see it
Think about it – the chief software architect from the world’s biggest software company which makes the bulk of its money selling PC and server software, endorses the cloud computing model!
When the PC first emerged to replace those earlier computing monstrosities, its key selling points were its simplicity and broad approachability.
How I see it
Think about it – the chief software architect from the world’s biggest software company which makes the bulk of its money selling PC and server software, endorses the cloud computing model!
When the PC first emerged to replace those earlier computing monstrosities, its key selling points were its simplicity and broad approachability.
Ozzie believes the next wave "toward a world of Internet-connected continuous services and appliance-like connected devices . . . would likely arise again from those very same facets.”
Ozzie says we must move away from thinking of computing as meaning "PCs, CD-installed programs, desktops, folders and files.” We’re moving toward another new world, he writes, where:
1) cloud-based continuous services connect us all and do our bidding, and
2) appliance-like connected devices enable us to interact with those cloud-based services.
Smart phones and the tablet systems are the first visible signs that he is correct as they already connect wirelessly to websites and online services. We can only imagine what will be the next new technological wave.
Ozzie says we must move away from thinking of computing as meaning "PCs, CD-installed programs, desktops, folders and files.” We’re moving toward another new world, he writes, where:
1) cloud-based continuous services connect us all and do our bidding, and
2) appliance-like connected devices enable us to interact with those cloud-based services.
Smart phones and the tablet systems are the first visible signs that he is correct as they already connect wirelessly to websites and online services. We can only imagine what will be the next new technological wave.
Ozzie believes the next model will consist of simpler devices which are always connected and services that are always available. He basically tossed down the gauntlet and challenged his own company and all the others out there to start building systems and devices that embrace the concept of the cloud paradigm.
Microsoft has already taken the first steps in that direction with its Windows Live services and now there’s the up-and-coming Office 365 service. We'll talk about the significance of Office 365 in a future post.
Anyway, that’s How I See It.
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