This is for any workload which needs high-power computing. We are seeing a transition from government and academic use to a broader market - to bring it into the mainstream. The sweet spot is not for really big machines but in the range of 4 to 64 way machines.

the right server for the right job.

[The second was the first beta of Windows Compute Cluster Solution, a version of the OS aimed at scientific and financial customers who need compute-intensive systems consisting of large server clusters. This is part of Microsoft's push into high-performance computing environments, areas where it's not been particularly successful, and where Unix rules.] The problem is a compute cluster solution has not been delivered by Microsoft [in the past], ... Our goal is to build a complete platform here. Compute Cluster allows people to build applications that scale across a large number of machines.

Disk-based backup is still in the early stages of adoption in enterprises, and, even then, it is mostly limited to high-end enterprises,

We see this as an important step in our efforts to work cooperatively with the [mobile-phone] industry.

It's actually very crucial for the financial model to be based on end-users paying for the value they receive. It's a reboot of the Internet business model.