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Why Microsoft really, really, hates the cloud
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Hates it? They're constantly espousing the virtues of the cloud.
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interesting read. I dont know if things will change that drastically, but I do believe there will be a major change.
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Thanks for sharing. Very interesting. Reminds me the evolution from main frames (with which I grew up) to PCs (which we considered as toys). But we were dead wrong.
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