Microsoft, while missing out on most consumer technology revolutions, has been busy programming business servers and expanding into cloud computing.

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The trouble with this approach to the relatively slow interconnection of the processors, latency and lack of real-time security is that there are synchronization and communication challenges, software programming complexities and other issues that are exacerbated in a cloud computing environment.

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By renting out cloud-based computers by the hour, companies could run any OS, software or programming language on a powerful virtual machine.

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