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The author is a 68 year old political scientist. The article is more like a political statement than a consumer advocacy piece.

Background story from Microsoft: http://news.microsoft.com/features/microsofts-new-cloud-powe...

Interesting that MSR also helped developing activity recognition algorithms for the device.

They are selling Hadoop (based on Java) via HdInsight. http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/services/hdin...

They may domninate the download-and-own market. However they still need to compete with other distribution mode, e.g. Netflix and Hulu in video, Spotify and Pandora in music.

> he barely mentions the importance of search

To be fair, he mentioned 7 critical steps. Search engines are No. 5.

Have you tried 'bcp'?

I just want to add the author of the article, i.e. Hal Berenson, is one of the key architect behind SQL Server 7.0 which is a rewrite from the legacy Sybase code. More information can be found at: http://www.microsoft.com/about/technicalrecognition/SQL-Serv...

Take a look at feature list here: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/mslr/feature.as...

Combing features 130, 131, 135 and 136, I think it is understandable what Google engineers did can give those fake links a boost in the search results. In a way, they cheated the algorithm.

I think it is interesting to think how a person's past (work) experience may influence the person's current thinking and judgement. Nothing else.

FYI, the person in charge (Mike Jazayeri) previously worked at Microsoft. I am not suggesting anything, just find it is quite interesting.