Founded in 1975,
Microsoft (Nasdaq "MSFT") is the worldwide leader in software,
services and solutions that help people and businesses realize their full
potential.
see also:-
Microsoft
- editor mentions on StorageSearch.com,
Microsoft's
SSD pages
editor's comments:- May 2012 - Microsoft is one
of many companies in the
SSD software
market.
Like other legacy OS companies Microsoft's experiments
at trying to do useful things with solid state storage haven't resulted in
anything worthwhile.
That's because the SSD market has been
discontinuous in its architecture - and often moving suddenly in directions
which appeared (to those outside the
SSD analyst loop)
to be tangents. OS companies like Microsoft prefer to know the shape of new
hardware features typically 5 to 10 years before they appear so they can plan
support and integrate it in their releases.
Microsoft has been used
to getting such roadmaps - regarding future CPUs and interfaces - although
chipmakers complain privately that Microsoft can still be slow to do anything
with that lookahead info.
Sorage history
too - demonstrates that Microsoft reacts slowly to real changes which weren't
in its fishbowl sights. (It took many years before the company supported
iSCSI for example.)
It
would be a mistake to look for leadership in SSD support from Microsoft. It
won't happen. The best that you can expect is that by 2020 - if Microsoft is
still around - then the needs of the SSD market will have stabilized enough to
get useful support in the OS. (Although by then - all storage will be solid
state anyway - so it won't be necessary to have any special support for SSDs
from the OS.) Until then look to SSD manufacturers and SSD software specialists
for tactical and proprietary solutions.
Microsoft mentions in
SSD market
history
Iin March 2010 - in yet another simulated
benchmark
published
today related to Adaptec's
SSD ASAP caching
technology - which they leverage in their
MaxIQ SSD product - I
learned that the underlying technology was originally developed by
(surprise! surprise!) - Microsoft.
"When
our datacenter team came up with some innovative ideas around using solid state
devices as read caching devices, we determined it made good sense to license
these advances to Adaptec because Microsoft itself doesn't sell these types of
products," said David Kaefer, GM of Intellectual Property Licensing at
Microsoft. "By collaborating through licensing, Adaptec customers benefit
from a product that delivers impressive performance and cost savings over
alternatives in the market."
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| In November 2002
- Bill Gates, talking about Tablet PC's said:- "There are also a
lot of peripherals that need to improve here. ...Eventually even the so-called
solid state disks will come along and not only will we have the mechanical disks
going down to 1.8 inch but some kind of solid state disk... will be part of
different Tablet PCs." |
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Charting the
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| "In November
2006 - Microsoft announced business availability of its new Vista
operating system - heralded as being the first PC market OS which included
SSD-aware support and native SSD cache management....." |
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SSD market
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| how fast can your
SSD run backwards? |
SSDs are complex devices and there's a
lot of mysterious behavior which isn't fully revealed by benchmarks, datasheets
and whitepapers.
Underlying all the important aspects of SSD behavior
are
asymmetries
which arise from the intrinsic technologies and architecture inside the SSD.
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