Ballmer: Microsoft will soon release 'Windows Cloud' OS
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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer revealed a few details on Wednesday of a forthcoming operating system that will help developers write Internet-based applications.Within a month, Microsoft will unveil what Ballmer called "Windows Cloud.
" The OS, which will likely have a different name, is intended for developers writing cloud-computing applications, said Ballmer, speaking in London to an auditorium of IT managers at a Microsoft-sponsored conference. Cloud computing is a term often applied to programs that are presented in a Web browser, but the actual computing is performed at a distant data center.