Forum - View topicINTEREST: Microsoft to Start Cloud Girl Manga for Windows Azure
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DarkCyradis
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LoL, if I were them, I would've just paid Square-Enix to let me use Cloud Strife to promote it. That would stir up interest pretty fast~
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andyscout
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Not 100% on this, but wasn't Nanami the official mascot character? Certainly supported by Microsoft since her voice pack was a bonus for certain versions of Win 7 in Japan. The older OS-tans are definitely unofficial though. |
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Sir Amyas Leigh
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Microsoft...? Am I losing it tonight or what? I would totally import this just to show to my proffesor/advisor, who is a microsoft guru
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Taishi
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Expect Drama CDs, ladies and gentlemen. This will mean more Nana Mizuki who is the voice of Nanami. |
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configspace
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Alternate story:
Ms. Claudia being cloudy as she is of course, loves to have many users at once, although each user has the task of manually opening her ports. After a while though, the risk of contracting a virus infection becomes high. |
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Cryssoberyl
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To the cloud!
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dormcat
Encyclopedia Editor
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Feel free to visit the Silverlight page of Microsoft Taiwan, along with cosplayers. |
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MJP
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I guess Amazon's cloud failure wasn't enough to convince people that "the cloud" isn't just marketing hype that is completely redundant on massive centralized infrastructure.
I thought the whole point of the Internet was to turn the emphasis away from a centralized server and decentralized clients? |
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Hawkwing
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This certainly got my attention, I've to check this out sometime!
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Metanomaly
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You've got some double-negatives going on there that confuse what you're trying to say. The idea of failover/load-balancing clusters isn't new and untested. Many, many organizations use them to useful ends. Only the branding as "clouds" is new. Amazon's offering failed to deliver on that premise for reasons that have yet to be made public. |
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Sir Amyas Leigh
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Wow thats just great. Why can't microsoft market their stuff like that in the states? I wouldn't think they were weird at all.... |
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Metanomaly
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because the commercials would all have to happen outside of safe harbor ;D |
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enurtsol
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Because the states just not that into it. 
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The Xenos
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I want to say those "to the cloud" ads for Windows 7 is actually more about remote desktop access than actual cloud sharing. Unless they are indeed sharing on the network and not accessing their home PC.
Is anyone else reaaaally paranoid and disturbed by the oncoming trend of cloud file access? At least with having the files on your private drive you had a bit more control over it. Though even then it isn't always the case, big brother can still burn your books. 451 kbps, the speed at which books are deleted? Of course with cloud sharing you don't even need that. You just take the media off of the server and no one can get to it anymore. Is it any wonder why Bradbury doesn't want any of his books on all these e-readers? |
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SgtMustang
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why w/ 2tb drives selling for less then $60 would people want to save info on distant servers that they may not be able to access then on their own hard drives. Only thing the "cloud" is useful for is portable devices that for size reasons only have flash memory.
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