Microsoft will release a competitor to Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud by end of 2008

Bradley Baker — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 17:42:18 -0400

Judgment on Oct. 27, 2008: This prediction came true today. Judged at 100%. -- The Industry Standard

Original prediction: When asked at MIX about Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Steve Ballmer indicated that Microsoft would be offering similar services. He refused to further elaborate.

Will Microsoft announce a competitor to EC2 by the end of 2008? For successful closure of this prediction, the Microsoft announcement must offer flexible computing capability with a pay-for-what-you-use pricing scheme.

Ed. note: to clarify, MSFT's new service must be: "able to create, launch and terminate server instances on demand" per the official language on Amazon's site. "Instances" here is Amazon's word for a virtual machine.

Microsoft will release a competitor to Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud by end of 2008

Bradley Baker — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 17:42:18 -0400

Judgment on Oct. 27, 2008: This prediction came true today. Judged at 100%. -- The Industry Standard

Original prediction: When asked at MIX about Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Steve Ballmer indicated that Microsoft would be offering similar services. He refused to further elaborate.

Microsoft will release a competitor to Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud by end of 2008

Bradley Baker — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 17:42:18 -0400

Judgment on Oct. 27, 2008: This prediction came true today. Judged at 100%. -- The Industry Standard

Original prediction: When asked at MIX about Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Steve Ballmer indicated that Microsoft would be offering similar services. He refused to further elaborate.

Microsoft will release a competitor to Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud by end of 2008

Bradley Baker — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 17:42:18 -0400

Judgment on Oct. 27, 2008: This prediction came true today. Judged at 100%. -- The Industry Standard

Original prediction: When asked at MIX about Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Steve Ballmer indicated that Microsoft would be offering similar services. He refused to further elaborate.

Microsoft will release a competitor to Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud by end of 2008

Bradley Baker — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 17:42:18 -0400

Judgment on Oct. 27, 2008: This prediction came true today. Judged at 100%. -- The Industry Standard

Original prediction: When asked at MIX about Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Steve Ballmer indicated that Microsoft would be offering similar services. He refused to further elaborate.

Microsoft will release a competitor to Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud by end of 2008

Bradley Baker — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 17:42:18 -0400

Judgment on Oct. 27, 2008: This prediction came true today. Judged at 100%. -- The Industry Standard

Original prediction: When asked at MIX about Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Steve Ballmer indicated that Microsoft would be offering similar services. He refused to further elaborate.

Microsoft will release a competitor to Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud by end of 2008

Bradley Baker — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 17:42:18 -0400

Judgment on Oct. 27, 2008: This prediction came true today. Judged at 100%. -- The Industry Standard

Original prediction: When asked at MIX about Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Steve Ballmer indicated that Microsoft would be offering similar services. He refused to further elaborate.