Cloud Computing and BPOS

On March 4, 2010, Steve Ballmer gave a speech focused on Microsoft's Cloud Computing commitment at the University of Washington.[7] Here is an excerpt from the Seattle Times,"The cloud fuels Microsoft and vice versa. 'About 75 percent of our folks are doing entirely cloud based or entirely cloud inspired,' Ballmer said. 'A year from now that will be 90 percent.' This full embrace of the term cloud computing is new for Microsoft. Up until now Microsoft was still pushing the term 'software as a service' to describe cloud software