For most companies (read, those that aren't rich enough to do it in house) "the cloud" is just another form of outsourcing, and a particularly bad one. Folks will come to realize that pretty quickly once the data breaches start happening in the cloud, just like they do inside of the company. I think MSFT's worries are not about the cloud - or at least, they shouldn't be.
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 11:06 AM, will...@lefkovics.net <will...@lefkovics.net> wrote: > I think the sentiment is that the worst is yet to come and the increased > trend toward the cloud (argh... i used a buzzword! I'm doomed!) means fewer > physical 'seats' for their products. > > They answer to their shareholders, not their employees or their customers > (though obviously ignoring the latter two will impact the former). > > Hey... I'm a shareholder. > > Ballmer's letter: > http://news.cnet.com/8301-10805_3-10147964-75.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-5 > > > ________________________________ > From: "Michael B. Smith" <mich...@theessentialexchange.com> > Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2009 10:45 AM > To: "MS-Exchange Admin Issues" <exchangelist@lyris.sunbelt-software.com> > Subject: RE: [OT] Thursday Funny > > I don't quite get their gloom and doom though. From that article: > > > > The company says profit slipped to $4.17 billion, or 47 cents per share, > from year-ago earnings of $4.71 billion, or 50 cents per share. > > It says total revenue edged up 2 percent to $16.63 billion, as software for > corporate computer servers helped offset an 8 percent drop in revenue for PC > software. > > The results missed Wall Street's forecast for earnings of 49 cents per share > on sales of $17.08 billion. > > > > They are complaining about a profit of 4 BILLION DOLLARS. OMG. > > > > Regards, > > > > Michael B. Smith, MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP > > My blog: http://TheEssentialExchange.com/blogs/michael > > I'll be at TEC'2009! http://www.tec2009.com/vegas/index.php > > > > From: will...@lefkovics.net [mailto:will...@lefkovics.net] > Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2009 12:31 PM > To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues > Subject: re: [OT] Thursday Funny > > > > Really, almost as good as the original. > > Not so funny Thursday tidbit: > Microsoft to cut up to 5,000 jobs > http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28791669/ > > ________________________________ > > From: "Michael B. Smith" <mich...@theessentialexchange.com> > Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2009 8:06 AM > To: "MS-Exchange Admin Issues" <exchangelist@lyris.sunbelt-software.com> > Subject: [OT] Thursday Funny > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hb2GmBkkaTU > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja ~
