One word – FREE.

How they are going to do it is interesting only from a geek viewpoint but if they can manage to get something reliable (no BSOD) on an istant-on platform without compromising too much on performance (netbook-like YES, Windows Moile NO PLEASE) then I could even consider spending some time on it.

Clouds are made of vapor, and that’s exactly what I’m expecting from Microsoft.

Or they could write a very lean, small and fast OS for netbooks and MIDs.
They kind of need something in that space.

I’m thinking they could do an extension of Windows Live. Kinda like Glide OS. This would be very possible coming from the WIndows Live team.

You know I was sitting in the audience in London yesterday and heard first hand what Steve had to say.

I have then seen this misreported a hundred times over during the last 24 hours.

It was already public knowledge that Windows 7 is being announced at PDC later this month. Not released, just announced. In London, Steve was talking about the next Windows and said “we don’t even have a name for it right now so lets just call it Windows Cloud for toady”.

To set the context, he was talking about how that whenever the market place changes, MS tend to just write another operating system. “It’s what they do”. Here we are again with clouds and stuff and guess what, MS are writting another OS. he explained how the cloud would form part of the experience and how application in the future could be deployed into the cloud and at that point we could have the “click to run” idea rather than the “click and install” idea. At this point you end up with a cross platform thing.

If I get chance I will post up the photos of the presentation onto my blog by the end of today so people can see for themselves how it looked but good grief. I can’t believe how his comments are being turned into something completely different.