Here is an interview that ZDNet did with Steven Sinofsky, president of Microsoft's Windows division.
I have no idea why they titled the article "How Windows 8 will take on Chrome and Android" because this was "kind of" asked and not answered. Very political, say a lot and give nothing away. However, I did find his take on the cloud interesting.
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There's no SD [card] slot in the cloud. I was looking at the cloud, and there's no print button on the cloud. There's a lot of things missing.
Think about the analogy I've made before where Windows is the movie theatre, and it's the software that is the movies. The movie theatre has a set of things it has to do. No matter what technology is used to build movies, and no matter what the movies do, you still need to sit down and have air-conditioning and snacks.
There's a whole bunch of stuff in your PC, and it's not clear which of those you give up when you switch to the cloud. That's the equivalence: if you want to use a cloud-based app, you still need a keyboard, you still need graphics.
And it turns out those things are all really important for enjoying software. When you think about how PC hardware keeps getting better, why would you want to give things up, if software keeps getting better?
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02-01-2010
How Windows 8 will take on Chrome and Android
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