Five years after Ray Ozzie penned The Internet Services Disruption, he reflects on Microsoft’s move to the cloud.
While he’s most proud of Windows Azure and SQL Azure, he also gives our competitors their due by mentioning that they have out-executed us when it comes to mobile experiences. He harps on the subject of how complexity kills and then challenges us to close our eyes and form a realistic picture of what a post-PC world might actually look like.
Ray goes on to state that those who can envision a plausible future that’s brighter than today will earn the opportunity to lead. His ultimate dream is to move us toward a world of :
- Cloud-based continuous services that connect us all and do our bidding. These are websites and cloud-based agents that we can rely on for more and more of what we do. On the back end, they possess attributes enabled by our newfound world of cloud computing: They’re always-available and are capable of unbounded scale.
- Appliance-like connected devices enabling us to interact with those cloud-based services. This goes beyond the PC and will increasingly come in a breathtaking number of shapes and sizes, tuned for a broad variety of communications, creation & consumption tasks. Each individual will interact with a fairly good number of these connected devices on a daily basis – their phone / internet companion; their car; a shared public display in the conference room, living room, or hallway wall.
As a Mobility Architect at Microsoft, I’m excited that my commitments align with this vision in connecting the Peanut Butter of the Cloud with the Chocolate of devices. Wireless data networks, bandwidth, latency and signal coverage are the wildcards when it comes to making this vision a reality. That’s why you’ll always see my concern for this Wireless wildcard reveal itself in all the Cloud-connected mobile architectures I design.
Check out the rest of Ray’s new memo at http://ozzie.net/docs/dawn-of-a-new-day/.
-Rob
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