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Peace, love, Woodstock and the Cloud

Posted by admin in Management, Infrastructure, Consulting, Security, Applications on Fri, 05/03/2010 - 17:59
  • 1969 - peace, love, Woodstock, moon walks, Cloud Computing. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer traces the Cloudy future of his firm back to the events of the 1960s.
It's probably too much to suggest that Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is just an old hippy at heart, but he's certainly very fond of the late 1960s. “1969 was really an important year,” he says. “Woodstock, man on the moon, and those were small, because the Internet was really first used in 1969.
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