Microsoft's Robert Wahbe on why the cloud doesn't mean the end of the IT department

Actually, the cloud gives the IT department to become strategic; get out of the server room and start making a business difference

http://www.cloudpro.co.uk/paas/cloud-deployment/1015/cloud-opportunity-it-department

My tweets

• Thu, 00:42: Glad to see the Office ribbon folk increasing their impact on the #windows8 UI; I've been begging for that principle of reorg thu'out the UI
• Thu, 01:00: hey @bldwin love the way the Web site not only uses #win8 stylee but has tablet proportions ;-)
• Thu, 01:08: I'd say I'm relieved #windows8 will have rich 'legacy' options of keyboard, mouse, all apps I already use but the Windows team ain't stupid
• Thu, 01:10: Honest question: why do some people want #windows8 not to be Windows, but to be something new, different, incompatible? explain?
• Thu, 01:11: Android; it's open, except where it isn't ;-) RT @dagetz: more control in WP7? android is open for god sake #d9
• Thu, 01:21: alas RT @getwire Microsoft's biggest challenge until RTM will be straightening out press/analyst confusion over the "two modes" of Windows 8
• Thu, 01:23: also: Microsoft has finally remembered to use subliminal cue of putting keynote day & time on screenshots for #bldwin site to make look real
• Thu, 01:51: cool, where can I get one? RT @JonathanHoover I can't begin to describe the stupidity of this. Elop gave his son an iPhone that runs Android
• Thu, 01:56: mmm; fuzzy hit targeting ¢roid detection could make trad Win app UIs usable on touch even when OEMs fit cheap low-res touch digitisers
• Thu, 04:03: must not join random conversations in coffee shops, even when people are wrong. resisting temptation. resisting...

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