Windows7 is under pressure. Microsoft hopes that "light system" can occupy light terminals

The globally hot Windows 7 is listed as "Microsoft's life-saving straw." Microsoft, who dominates the PC operating system, is "helping" because she is out of date.

Cloud computing has opened up the cloud era, and Microsoft is facing increasingly fierce competition. On the one hand, Apple is rising again, open source software Linux is developing rapidly, and Google Android, Intel's moblin is also appearing; on the other hand, mobile phones MID, mobile netbooks, and more screens are challenging PC screens that Microsoft has a monopoly.

It’s not just Microsoft that is outdated, but also the Wintel architecture that has dominated the IT industry for nearly 20 years. Nowadays, downstream PC manufacturers are faced with more choices. With the launch of Intel's moblin operating system, the intersection of Intel and Microsoft has also emerged, and its contradictions and conflicts are bound to follow.

In the era of cloud computing, the way people use computing terminals is revolutionizing, computing, storage from the desktop to the cloud, the terminal becomes a weak terminal, and weak terminals can only carry a light operating system.

Windows Vista is not a light system, nor is XP. The code of these systems is huge and difficult to install. The hardware requirements of the users are very high, resulting in many early users suddenly unable to use the software and hardware of the computer. Google Android and Intel Moblin have exactly the strengths in this area.

Thus, Windows 7 is called "epoch-making products" by Microsoft, and Microsoft hopes that this "light system" can occupy the light terminal and continue its glory. Bloody fights will be carried out in the field of netbooks. For the netbook market, Microsoft has launched the Windows7 Starter Starter Edition, which will be provided to downstream manufacturers such as Lenovo, Dell, HP, Acer, and Asus.

Currently, about 90% of PCs worldwide install Windows operating systems. Microsoft hopes that more than 90% of all light terminals will be pre-installed with Microsoft's light systems.

The victory of the terminal can not support the cloud world, and the war has shifted from the terminal to the cloud. The light system Windows7 supports the terminal, and the cloud relies on another mysterious weapon.

Liang Nianjian, CEO of Microsoft Greater China, first revealed this secret weapon in an interview with this reporter. "The device that Microsoft is about to launch is like a container, completely sealed, just more power, fiber optic cable, Three sockets for air conditioning."

Liang Nianjian did not want to disclose the name of the device. The reporters in the Microsoft market even said that they did not know the device.

This is a complete cloud backend device. Users do not need to cover the building for the data center, do not need five-way and one-level, do not need a one-year or even longer construction period, buy one, pass power, cable, air conditioning, you can get the required computing and storage resources. More importantly, this cloud background device is very convenient to expand, and the capacity and storage are not enough. Add one more.

At this point, Microsoft's cloud strategy is beginning to outline: For those big companies, you can buy Microsoft "containers" and build your own "private cloud", while through Microsoft's light system, light terminals from "private clouds" Get computing, storage, IT applications and services; for small businesses, just buy Microsoft light systems, micro terminals, and cloud resources are leased from their data centers. Microsoft has stocked thousands of acres of land in Canada to build its own data center.

On the consumer side, Microsoft's cloud strategy is to seize terminal occupancy through Windows 7, Windows Mobile or xbox that has not yet entered China. At the same time, it provides applications and services from the Internet or cloud through MSN, Bing search and hotmail.

The cloud world constructed by Microsoft is very ambitious, but the devil is in the details.