For Microsoft, which has had a number of products and services of the company, held the same day two will be published not surprising, Xbox again and again after a lapse of eight new products in the next five years, this is Microsoft's core products, Steve Ballmer gave Xbox will be published and the choice came to China to attend a listed product presentation, visible Microsoft for Windows Azure enter the Chinese market seriously.
Windows Azure is a cloud operating system developed by Microsoft, provides developers with an application running in the cloud platform, the main services include: Windows Azure; Microsoft SQL database services, Microsoft. Net services; used to share, store and sync files Live services; against commercial for Microsoft SharePoint and Microsoft Dynamics CRM services. In the past year, Windows Azure services revenue exceeded $ 1 billion, the business is expected to become Microsoft's Windows and Office after the third-largest source of revenue. From market research firm Gartner data shows that in the next three years, the cloud computing market will reach $ 237.2 billion, and the strong growth momentum.
Cloud business is one of many technology giants key development projects, but so far no one overseas company's cloud business into the Chinese market, after several rounds of consultations in the Microsoft Windows Azure finally opened the door to enter the Chinese market, through the use of Century Internet operations, local build Windows Azure data center model became the first company to enter China cloud computing market overseas companies in the short term will be able to bring huge profits for Microsoft.
Steve Ballmer to visit mainland China, with Shanghai Mayor talks, said the cooperation between Microsoft and Shanghai will not be limited to cloud computing, intelligent urban construction in Shanghai's plan Microsoft will also participate in a lot of cooperation.
Steve Ballmer attended the Windows Azure will be released into the Chinese emphasis on short-term gains approval, Microsoft's results are a few levels consecutive unsatisfactory, Steve Ballmer, CEO of bit precarious, Xbox is Microsoft's next 10 years, the entertainment industry's core product, but because of the game Host service features in the initial listing of the game as a huge investment in hardware costs will show a loss situation, there may be a lot of losses for several years, the urgent need to boost performance of the company's Steve Ballmer will want to put a more rapid return on cloud computing market.
