Note di Steve Ballmer sullo sviluppo di Windows 8

Certe "note" bisognerebbe leggerle bene, anche se, per la lunghezza, possono sembrare noiose a un esame superficiale. Se rileggiamo meglio una nota di Steve Ballmer, datata  27 maggio 2010, scopriamo cose molto interessanti sulla prossima versione di Windows.

Prima di tutto Ballmer dice chiaramente che la prossima versione di Windows e IE insieme formeranno un SO cloud based.

And that’s why this notion of the so-called cloud is so important. The cloud really is a buzzword more than anything, it’s not a thing. The cloud is not the Internet, the cloud is not some one Microsoft product or competitive product. The cloud is a new model for computing. It’s a new model for computing that brings together the best of rich clients with the best of the Internet. It brings together the best of the enterprise data centers with the best of the Internet. It is a phenomenon that all products will need to take advantage of. Windows and IE will fuse together and embrace the cloud. Office, we’re embracing the cloud. Windows Server through Windows Azure, embraces the cloud and so on and so forth.

Ballmer aggiunge che "si sta lavorando duramente" a Internet Explorer 9 e alla prossima versione di Windows. Di Internet Explorer 8 non si parla più.

We’re in a year in which we’re shipping a lot of exciting new products. Windows 7 really hit the market well. We’re hard at work in Internet Explorer 9 and on the next version of Windows. We’re launching Office 2010, and the number of new things that we can enable in our customers, whether it’s a consumer or small business, on up to a mid-sized and large business with Office 2010, SharePoint, Exchange is really quite remarkable.