If cloud computing sounds bleeding edge, it’s not. Masses of people are cloud computing each time they check Hotmail, upload photos to Facebook or buy music on iTunes. Microsoft Corp. says that’s just the beginning.
It wants the cloud to deliver pizzas.
The company has been courting Domino’s Pizza to move its online ordering system to Microsoft’s cloud service. And Domino’s would be just the start of a major business Microsoft wants to dominate in the years to come.
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Domino’s was an early partner win for Microsoft when the pizza chain said in November that it would put its online pizza-ordering system on the Microsoft cloud. Twenty percent of Domino’s pizzas are ordered through the Web, and the company just hit a $1 billion milestone in online sales in February.