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Machiavellian on 19 June 2013
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disolitude said:
superchunk said:
cablebox said:
"Microsoft and Google are the only two ...that have "the cloud""
really?
I think that's not true

In the manner they are referring, it is definitely true.

With Google I have unlimited storage of all docs/images/videos/etc with nearly instant access on just about any device that is web-enabled including competitors like Apple/MS products.

MS is following that same approach and has greatly expanded its cloud to attempt to match Google's.

 

If MS didn't restrict what I could do with my physical game media, I'd be all over a Xbone.

Microsoft is vastly larger than Google in the cloud in terms of marketshare and presence. Only Amazon WS is able to compete with Azure and that is because they are significanly cheaper. In terms of latency Microsoft tends to beat everyone else...

I probably woud include MS, Google and Amazon as the big 3 in cloud computing.  As you mentioned only Amazon is there in market share with MS azure but the problem with Amazon is that they have had some major outages where their systems have been down for a lenth of time.  Azure policy is 100% uptime which puts them at a level even Amazon isn't at yet.