Rumor: Microsoft’s Cloud based streaming service is called “Rio”

[Machiavellian]

Subie_Greg said:

Machiavellian said:

 A cloud service is more than just a bunch of servers, the software that runs it is just as important and takes years to perfect.  Just forgetting about everything esle that makes a complete cloud service ignores the complexity of such a system.  Combine that software for distributed apps with a whole lot of servers gives MS an advantage in this space that is greater at this time than Sony.  

Now if you mentioned content, then that would be totally different.
2.  Yes, having a lot of servers does not make you proficient at everything.  The point is that Azure has been doing steaming of demanding software for years.  Its not like MS is a novice in this area.  They already have a video standard for compresion which is one of the best on the market and if this internal showing is to believe, it appears they have no problem sreaming a game.  Thus having a true cloud platform and the muscle to deploy in a greater area with enough servers to provide a high quality of service (Just so you know Quality of service is about the speed which for some reason in your last post you did not get).

In the end, you have an opinion that is not irrefutable.  There are gaps in your statement which does not take into effect what the Azure service is or what it can do.  You keep making statements like a could service is a bunch of PCs which is just one part.  You keep saying that the X1 will only get a fraction of Azure which is totally not how the service works.  I believe the real problem is that you do not know what Azure is and how it works.

I'm not going to get long winded in this. I am not going to pick apart your entire post

I'll just simply say you have no information to back up the claims you pull from your rear. None. Zero. Nada

You spent a whole bunch of time talking about Microsoft and Azure, which you clearly know very little about. And I'll have to assume you know even less about Sony's service since you didn't mention it at all. Even though you can say they are at a disadvantage : )

Overall you don't have anywhere near the required information to make these statements... because that information isn't out there right now

And not just you but others too