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Läste just denna artikel i Fortune som jag tycker ger en ganska intressant inblick i hur Microsoft arbetar och tänker kring sin satsning på att erbjuda sina nuvarande och kommande produkter som tjänster på nätet.

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Den är ganska lång, men väl värd att läsa tycker jag. Här kommer några teasers...

"Just think about where there are windmills, dams, and other natural power sources around the world, and that's where you're going to see server farms," he says.

Though he won't get very specific, Ozzie says that he is amazed at the amounts Microsoft is spending, and that the cost of building the physical infrastructure for Web services will be a major barrier limiting the number of players in this business.

"The people who could build a viable services infrastructure of scale," he says, "are companies that have both the will and the capacity to invest staggering amounts of money - staggering amounts." Think billions, many billions.

Google is rumored to have a million servers around the world and, according to a knowledgeable source, is already the top electricity user in at least one large U.S. state. Google would not comment.