Executive outlined Microsoft’s Cloud Computing & Social Networking vision

A Microsoft executive involved with the company's Windows Live efforts outlined some of the company's ideas about cloud-based computing and social networking technologies today. The talk was presented by Brian Hall, general manager of the Windows Live Business Group, at the 2008 Merrill Lynch Technology Conference on May 6.

Hall predicted that applications will be moving to a world that combines the "best of the PC" with "the best of the Web."

He depicted a software past in which social networking was once typically enabled by just a few "siloed applications," such as e-mail and instant messaging. Microsoft entered this space early on with its Hotmail and Windows Live Messenger offerings.

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Microsoft, Cloud Computing, Social Networking