Never Underestimate Microsoft's Ability to Turn a Corner

November 3, 2008 at 12:03 am PT

This week Microsoft (MSFT) didn’t get much hype for its three major announcements. Certainly it didn’t stay on top of TechMeme as long as, say, if Steve Jobs gets a sniffle. But don’t miss what they did.

1. On day one of the PDC, they announced Azure, which is a set of cloud services that competes with Amazon’s S3 and Rackspace’s Mosso and will radically change enterprises’ acceptance of cloud services for a whole lot of reasons.

2. On day two of the PDC, they showed off Windows 7, which is getting high praise from my blogging friends who were lent laptops with it on there (I didn’t get Windows 7 yet).

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Tagged with: Amazon S3, Azure, cloud services, Fast Company, Microsoft, PDC, Rackspace Mosso, Robert Scoble, Scobleizer, TechMeme, Windows 7

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  • http://blog.macb.net Mac Beach

    The question has been asked: were they lent laptops or given them?

    They did the same stunt to gen up a lot of good publicity for Vista.

    Slowly but surely the public loses trust in journalists that can be so easily bought off with trinkets.

    These days I want to see the resume of any journalist making technical recommendations. What were they before they got into journalism? An orchestra leader? An event organizer? PR flak for a company?

    There are very few people doing this for a living who have an actual technical background. Microsoft knows this and takes advantage of it. Nothing really new about that.

    Companies that want to get it right had better be doing their own product comparisons.

  • Sam Harrison

    hey scoble, you worked for microsoft for years

    so cut the garbage about its new products: azure and windows 7

    these are yet 2 more copy cats from the copy cat empire

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