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Google and Microsoft Look at Clouds From the Same Side Now (It's Still War Though!)

in News on March 5, 2010 at 9:00 am PT

Yesterday, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer went all misty in a speech, declaring in his strongest statement that cloud computing was mission critical for the software giant. “This is the bet for the company,” Ballmer said. “For the cloud, we’re all in.” And that’s also pretty much all the language you’ve been hearing from Google of late.

Kara and Walt Visit Google in Dublin

in News on July 26, 2007 at 12:05 am PT

It’s not all luxury hotels, rolling green hills and Guinness here on our trip to Dublin, Ireland, to look for a place to possibly hold an international version of D: All Things Digital, which we are calling EuroD. You can see videos of Walt Mossberg and me undertaking that arduous effort (visits to Dublin Castle, [...]