Microsoft's 'Cloud OS' takes shape

news.com.com

7 pointsgibsonf14 comments

This was pretty interesting, though I specifically enjoyed this quote: "A lot of what Windows was doing early on was memory management, storage, all of the things today we take for granted," Hall said. "The vast majority of developers (today), they are not thinking, 'how am I going to store this particular piece of data in memory?' It just happens."

It might just happen, but it would probably be useful to know at least in principle how and why it happens. From my experience, a lot of developers have no clue whatsoever.

Considering Microsoft has been dealing in vapor for years, clouds seem to be a natural line extension for them. Seriously though, does anyone really believe MS is going to be able to deliver something well-engineered?

can you mention any company that can deliver something well-engineered?

If yes, list the products please :)

No, not a chance. Unless they buy a completely separate company not run by their engineers to do the work. Their standard production model seems to be: slap a bunch of features together so that the user gets at least an hour or so of non-crash functionality, then spend years slowly resolving the bugs, yet pile on more features with more bugs, repeat.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com