TechCrunch has posted an interesting interview with Microsoft’s CEO Steve Ballmer.
The unusually restrained Ballmer talks about Microsoft’s “three screens and the cloud” strategy, describing it as a “fundamental shift in the computing paradigm.”
We used to talk about mainframe computer, mini computer, PC computing, client server computing, graphical computing, the internet; I think this notion of three screens and a cloud, multiple devices that are all important, the cloud not just as a point of delivery of individual applications, but really as a new platform, a scale-out, very manageable platform that has services that span security contacts, I think it’s a big deal.
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