Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: Microsoft to put "many millions" of servers in cloud

June 03, 2008 Bill Gates, in his farewell address at Microsoft's TechEd developer conference today, sketched out Microsoft's expansive plan for cloud computing. The company, he said, will have "many millions" of servers in a network of data centers. Those centers will ultimately provide as utility services everything done today by traditional Microsoft software installed on local servers: We're ta

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Nicholas Carr summarizes, "The design of massive data centers, said Gates, is one of the key areas of innovation in computing today, and the huge investments required will limit the construction of cloud-computing centers to just a handful of companies:"

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Nicholas Carr on Bill Gates:"That's a good point: It will be a long, long time before the cloud covers the globe uniformly."