引述 :『Windows® Azure 是微軟針對雲端運算所提出來的解決方案，以服務(service)的方式讓程式開發人員將系統部屬於雲端上，這真是令人興奮呢！今年初，Google推出App Engine，截至目前為止，都只有提供Python runtime，讓走微軟開發派的程式開發人員的筆者我，相當的羨慕，好希望微軟也能提供類似的服務，沒想到這個雲端運算的測試版已經推出了。』

引述 :『Aura's goal is to provide each user with an invisible halo of computing and information services that persists regardless of location.』

引述 :『The idea of social computing can be traced back to the 1940s in Vannevar Bush's seminal 1945 Atlantic Monthly paper 「As We May Think.」 In the paper, he conceived a memory and communication device called a memex. He also proposed many far-reaching ideas decades before researchers actively worked on them or they became everyday computing terms, including augmentation, groupware, and computer-supported collaborative work. 』