Tyler McFadden
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History of Microsoft Azure
Microsoft has developed its own cloud computing platform that allows people to use computing resources over the internet and pay for them the same way people pay for utilities. The history of this particular platform begins all the way back to the year 2005. In that year, Microsoft took over Grove Networks. For those who were not around back in the mid-2000s or those who were around but just did not care about tech giants back then, Groove Networks was a software company based in Beverly, Massachusetts that mostly focused on creating productivity software to allow multiple users to work on computer files at the same time. It was bought by Microsoft for $120 million US Dollars and Bill Gates, the CEO of Microsoft at the time, made the founder of Grooves one of the 3 chief technology officers of Microsoft to help with the company's attempts at innovation. This CTO, Ray Ozzie, began to spend approximately three years working on a project for a cloud operating system with other developers at Microsoft before announcing their new platform on October 2008 . This platform was called the Windows Azure Platform and it was announced to a massive crowed at the Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles, California.
By Tyler McFadden2 years ago in 01
History of WeChat App
WeChat is an incredibly popular mobile app with over 1 billion monthly active users. So many people are using WeChat and it remains such a popular application with a regular user count many mobile app developers wish they could have. What is their secret to having such a successful mobile application? Well, there is an extensive history of business connections, development, and various events in one of the most populous nations on the planet that allowed WeChat to be able to grow to prominence. This story will hopefully explain the development of WeChat and how it became such a powerhouse - and how it became very controversial in the United States and several other Western nations due to some of the reasons for its success...
By Tyler McFadden2 years ago in 01
Intro To Cloud Computing History
Cloud computing is pretty much all over the news and being mentioned by practically every business that has to work with networking & computing. However, most people have no clue what cloud computing is or why it is treated as so important to various industries. Well, there is a very short definition that is provided by technical writer Wesley Chai: "Cloud computing is a general term for anything that involves delivering hosted services over the internet". Over the internet, you can get data storage, computing power, networking, and analytics from a company that can host all of the computing infrastructure for you. The cloud symbol being used to represent computing has been a thing since the year 1977 when a cloud symbol was used to represent networking of computers for ARPANET (the first wide-area packet-switched network and one of the first computer networks to implement the TCP/IP protocol suite of communication protocols). In this case, the cloud was used as a metaphor for the Internet and the cloud-symbol was used to show a network of electronic devices communicating with one another. The term cloud was officially used to refer to platforms for distributed computing (computing where a software system is shared among multiple computers) as early as 1993 when Apple and AT&T used it to describe Telescript technologies. AT&T described it like this:
By Tyler McFadden2 years ago in 01