The Cloud Is the New OS

Back in the 1990s and early 2000s, the operating system was the computer. If you wanted to run a program, manage users, allocate memory, connect to a network, or read a file, you did it through the OS. Microsoft understood this. They built an empire by controlling the layer that everything else relied on. But today, most developers have no idea what OS their app is running on. And they don’t need to. ...

August 7, 2025 · 3 min