It appears that Microsoft is a little upset that they were left out of the creation of a collaborative document called The Cloud Manifesto. The Senior Director of Platform management from Microsoft went so far as calling the document biased to benefit the authors and unfair to competitors, like Microsoft.
What I think is interesting is that Microsoft is very eager to be the leader in cloud computing. But I don’t think Microsoft understands that with cloud computing the end user doesn’t care what operating system their online application is running on. Many people don’t realize that most websites are running on open source platforms, they just care that the website works. But from the system administrators’ standpoint, if he can save thousands of dollars running open source software, and the end user doesn’t know the difference why would he choose something else?
Read the whole article from IT World here.
