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The author is a 68 year old political scientist. The article is more like a political statement than a consumer advocacy piece.

Background story from Microsoft: http://news.microsoft.com/features/microsofts-new-cloud-powe... Interesting that MSR also helped developing activity recognition algorithms for the…

They are selling Hadoop (based on Java) via HdInsight. http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/services/hdin...

They may domninate the download-and-own market. However they still need to compete with other distribution mode, e.g. Netflix and Hulu in video, Spotify and Pandora in music.

In its most recent (Q3 2011) financial report, Apple Inc (AAPL) put its reserves at $76.4bn. As of today (8/19/2011), Amazon.com Inc (AMZN) has market capitalization of $81.22bn. I…

> he barely mentions the importance of search To be fair, he mentioned 7 critical steps. Search engines are No. 5.

Have you tried 'bcp'?

I just want to add the author of the article, i.e. Hal Berenson, is one of the key architect behind SQL Server 7.0 which is a rewrite from the legacy Sybase code. More information …

Take a look at feature list here: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/mslr/feature.as... Combing features 130, 131, 135 and 136, I think it is understandable what Google e…

I think it is interesting to think how a person's past (work) experience may influence the person's current thinking and judgement. Nothing else.

FYI, the person in charge (Mike Jazayeri) previously worked at Microsoft. I am not suggesting anything, just find it is quite interesting.