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SUMMARY:Is The Rise of Cloud Storage\, Cloud Computing and Social Networks
  a Consequence of a Failed OS (Operating System) Design?  - Yvo Desmedt\, 
 University of Texas
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CONTACT:Microsoft Research Cambridge Talks Admins
DESCRIPTION:On the one hand\, many regard the Operating Systems as Windows
  95\, Windows 98\, Windows NT\, and Windows 7\, as major success stories o
 f Microsoft. Indeed\, for non-geeks\, Windows is regarded as user-friendly
  and so ideal. However\, some critical of Microsoft have pointed out that 
 Windows 95 had for all practical purposes ignored the internet and only af
 ter the start of browser wars became Internet Explorer a success story.\n\
 nSocial networks\, such as Facebook and Twitter are regarded as the corpor
 ations of the future. Cloud storage seems to replace local storage and clo
 ud computing is competing with supercomputers.\n\nWe will critically analy
 se the history of the modern operating system. We argue that in essence no
 t much has changed since 1998. In this lecture we start by analysing what 
 impact the WWW should have had on the design of operating systems. We wond
 er\, in particular\, why we have ended up in a world where huge servers ha
 ve become vast power consumers\, while at the same time many PC's are idle
  and their disks almost empty. We will combine this understanding with our
  different viewpoint on the WWW to hypothesise how we might have ended up 
 in a world were servers would be less dominant\, Facebook non-existent\, e
 tc.\n
LOCATION:Auditorium\, Microsoft Research Ltd\, 21 Station Road\, Cambridge
 \, CB1 2FB
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