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The Cloud ain’t ready for prime time
Posted on May 14th, 2011 at 04:49 No commentsMy latest article in Windows Secrets (which is part of the paid portion of the newsletter – remember you can sign up for the paid version and choose how much you want to pay) talks about Cloud problems.
And right on cue, it looks like BPOS, Microsoft’s precursor to Office 365, is having problems with Exchange Server. It’s been going on all week. Looks like quite a few people couldn’t get their mail.
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The perils of patching in the cloud
Posted on August 14th, 2010 at 04:53 1 commentCloud computing is supposed to be the way to go, right? When there’s a new version of a program, there’s no need to patch a hundred million PCs, you only have to patch one copy of the app, up there in the cloud, right?
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