I was surprised to read this on the Register.  If Vijay Gill is right, Microsoft’s cloud solution seems quaint.  Google’s approach to IT issues is design thinking in action- the sort of scalable dynamic solutions that are enabling their applications to have as flexible a foundation as possible. As an example, he said, Microsoft is working to juice the performance of its Virtual Earth mapping service using so-called “edge technologies” – a combination of Akamai-like CDN (content delivery network) tools and actual code that runs at the edge of the network. “We’re looking at a mixture of approaches and trying to solve problems for specific applications and types of applications,” he said. At which point, Gill piped up to explain – in his matter-of-fact…