The view out the window was of cloud cover over Somewhere, Pennsylvania.
The Windows friendly concept of cloud computing and its digital socialism sharing model that soccer haters Beck and Limbaugh scoff at is at the core of efforts to commoditize the current contract based client-server data delivery system into a shared pay-as-you-go platform.
A shaken police officer, speaking to me by phone on Tuesday afternoon, said, "I saw bodies flying out of windows in clouds of debris.
Outside the windows, a thick layer of cloud floated about, as if it were an amenity designed to muffle wayward sounds.
The company is also expected to take the plan a step further next week at an education event in New York City, with the launch of Windows 10 Cloud, which may highlight the launch of systems designed specifically to beat Google at its own game.
Windows Central has gotten its hands on an internal document highlighting the hardware performance of Windows 10 Cloud, a rumored operating system spinoff expected to be unveiled at next month's big education event in New York.
Three years to the day from his corner-turn memo about changing Microsoft's direction from software to software plus services and after two days of keynotes, Microsoft chief software architect Ray Ozzie reviewed the launch of the Windows Azure cloud OS and forthcoming online versions of the Office suite.
To avoid his plea, I looked away, and saw, in the windows of the barracks, a cloud of faces staring out at the four of us.
According to a report in ZDNet, Microsoft will change the name of its Windows Azure cloud computing platform to Microsoft Azure.
I could see the detailed silence of the place: the dead, parked cars; the office doors ajar; the tiny windows of the block; the clouds as solid as the hills.
