We explained the cloud before. Were you paying attention?
The cloud means software applications that run not on your own computer but on a distant one, connected to yours by the Internet. Google offers plenty such, and hopes the cloud will become a universal cloud.
Microsoft used to ridicule that idea: We don’t need no stinking clouds! MS, of course, has built its fortune on software for individual boxes. Hundreds of millions at present, and MS would like to serve many more fine customers. Read our post on cloud computing.
But watching all those clouds made Mr. Gates and Mr. Ballmer hungry, and they decided to eat Yahoo.
No predictions are offered. But the cloud is with us to stay.
Read the NY Times article.
