John Markoff’s article in the NYT about Microsoft’s new “Live Mesh” is a move by another major player toward cloud computing.
“The Web is the hub of our social mesh and our device mesh,” he wrote. That statement is the first of a set of three “guiding principles” that Mr. Ozzie outlined in the five-page document entitled “Services Strategy Update.” In taking the PC off center stage, Microsoft is refocusing some of its resources to catch its cloud computing rivals.
In an earlier post, I suggested this trend will be significant for libraries. Initially I thought of libraries using cloud computing as a consumer of cloud computing as in the model that OCLC is developing with WorldCat Local. I believe it is more productive, though, to develop means for libraries to become an active part of the computing cloud that allows consumers to library resources and services.
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