Everybody else is doing it. Microsoft is going to give a shot at it too.

In an effort to keep programmers loyal and customers happy, Microsoft has recognized the need to match their competitors’ moves toward cloud computing with Azure. Gadgetell has a more in depth look on cloud computing here. Making operating systems and programs remotely accessible means real changes for us.

Keep reading to see what some of them are.

Sit down in front of my computer and you will find upwards of five Internet windows each with at least eight tabs, all open to different sites. Pages just don’t load fast enough for me. The moment it takes a page to load, I feel like I need to be doing something else or it is time wasted.

I am going be in trouble when they make things even faster than the cable Internet I have now. It is in the works to increase Ethernet speed from 10 Gigabit Ethernet (“GbE”) to 40GbE or 100GbE (or 80 GbE,120 or even 160 GbE as the actual number is undetermined at present). From the way it looks, I have about two years to figure out what to do about that and come off my multi-window addiction.

How does this effect you? Keep reading to find out.

It might seem like an oxymoron at first, but I assure you, there won’t be an ox (and certainly not a moron) in the following story. This is about a new data center built by IBM for GIB-Services, which uses innovative technology to heat a local public swimming pool. And they’re doing this by recycling more »