Steve Clayton has worked for over 10 years at Microsoft. He started as a Systems Engineer playing with Internet technologies and then migrated to the trendy area of Knowledge Management, then worked in Microsoft's mobile devices group helping Orange to launch the world's first Windows Mobile smartphone. He moved in to the UK Partner Group where he became the CTO and worked with a tonne of great partners and it was this phase of his career that reminded him that software can change the world. In Nov 2007, Clayton started a new role in Microsoft International working on Software + Services and as few other black ops projects. He blogs here.
Steve Clayton's Blog
The iPhone is a great example of cloud computing – or more accurately
Software plus Service. I’ve said this at a few recent conferences and it
always gets a raised eyebrow when I put an iPhone in my presentation but it
gets the message across. The combination of Internet connected devices and
Internet delivered services is the direction the industry is headed.
To quote Steve Jobs from the All Things D conference:
"I think the marriage of some really great client apps with some really great
cloud services is incredibly powerful and right now, can be way more powerful
than just having a browser on the client"
How the iPhone is Cloud Computing's Killer App conveniently forgets that the
original premise of the iPhone was to deliver apps through the browser in a
SaaS fashion but now embraces rich clients. It also sort of suggests that the
iPhone conn... (more)
Steve Clayton has worked for over 10 years at Microsoft. He started as a Systems Engineer playing with Internet technologies and then migrated to the trendy area of Knowledge Management, then worked in Microsoft's mobile devices group helping Orange to launch the world's first Windows Mobile smartphone. He moved in to the UK Partner Group where he became the CTO and worked with a tonne of great partners and it was this phase of his career that reminded him that software can change the world. In Nov 2007, Clayton started a new role in Microsoft International working on Software + Services and as few other black ops projects. He blogs 
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