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  • Ballmer says Microsoft betting on the cloud

    Literally, I will tell you we are betting our company on it.In addition to Microsoft's Azure platform, Ballmer said the cloud and its potential is behind Microsoft's technology strategy and that the company, while perhaps behind in some areas such…
    05 March 2010
    Tags: Steve Ballmer • Playing • Games • Cloud Computing

  • Microsoft offers Visual Studio 2010 preorder bonus

    Visual Studio 2010 features capabilities for building applications for Windows 7, the Windows Azure cloud platform, and the SharePoint collaboration platform. Twenty hours of access to the Windows Azure cloud platform is featured as well, along…
    03 March 2010
    Tags: Upgrades • Studio • Pushed • Editions • Edition • Developer

  • Microsoft sets out development strategy

    Microsoft's cloud platform, while not specifically named in the blog, is Windows Azure. Cloud, agile development, the Web, and others make Microsoft's to-do list Microsoft's to-do list in the software development space includes continued or new…
    24 February 2010
    Tags: Programming • Parallel • Javascript • Foundation • Distributed • Cloud Computing

  • Microsoft philosophical over cloud revenue

    It is essentially zero percent of our current operating revenue.Microsoft just this month began billing users of its Azure cloud platform environment. Microsoft plans to invest heavily in its cloud platform but expects to see little revenue for two…
    24 February 2010
    Tags: Windows Server • Term • Shipped • Investment • Invest • Hyperv

  • Amazon cloud boosts memory, expands Windows support

    While databases, middleware, and other algorithms have gotten around memory limitations for years, simply having more memory to work with is an effective way to brute-force much computation.And in a move against Microsoft's competing Azure service…
    24 February 2010
    Tags: Scalable • Instances • Elastic • Compute • Cloud • Amazon

  • Microsoft and science foundation collaborate on cloud computing

    Microsoft is to offer researchers free access to cloud Researchers selected by the US National Science Foundation will have free access to Microsoft's Windows Azure cloud computing platform.Research projects focused on cloud computing will have…
    05 February 2010
    Tags: Science • Researchers • Grant • Foundation • Community • Cloud

Latest Features

  • Eight things you should know about Windows Phone 7

    The other alternative is cloud-based storage: Several MIX10 demonstrations have underlined the ease with which developers can incorporate a wide range of resources in Azure, Microsoft's cloud platform.
    17 March 2010
    Tags: Sql Server • Query • Microsoft Office • Marketplace • Downloading • Api

  • Microsoft vs. Google: The empire strikes back

    For example, one application that Microsoft has built atop the Azure APIs is Live Mesh, a service that synchronises files between the cloud and multiple client computers.From a developer's perspective, the relationship between the cloud and the…
    23 February 2010
    Tags: Redmond • Flagship • Cloud Computing • Argue • Architect • Apis

  • Software developers climb aboard the cloud

    Windows Azure currently is in beta preview and moves to a full production stage on 1 February.With computing in public clouds, applications are deployed on third party servers and accessed over the Internet, saving enterprises infrastructure costs…
    20 January 2010
    Tags: Programming • Migration • Love • Delivery • Cloud Computing • Amazon

  • Lack of single sign-on could hamper cloud security

    Microsoft had admitted that its Azure cloud platform does not yet support its FIM 2010 credentials product, a situation that represents a blow to cloud adoption. For example, the Microsoft Azure team are apparently talking to the FIM 2010 team but…
    16 September 2009
    Tags: Party • Banks • Enter • Trusted • Talking • Governments

  • Microsoft steams into services with Azure

    Microsoft has bet big on cloud computing and the Azure platform. Yet, all the signs are the company could do it and make Azure a mainstay of the computing world for some time. In fact, the company claims that it will be the mainstay of computing…
    06 November 2008
    Tags: Fabric • Preview • Api • Bet • Amazon • Architect

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  • Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 review

    You can download Azure, Silverlight, IronRuby, and IronPython support.If you're installing on Windows 7, as we did, the SQL Server installer built into the Visual Studio installer will fail. Although not without problems, Microsoft Visual Studio is…
    09 June 2009
    Tags: Studio • Javascript • Sql Server • Languages • Programming • Learned

  • Microsoft Azure Services Platform

    This inclusive choice opens the Azure services to easy integration with almost any programming language and operating system.Another promising note is how, while breaking new ground, the Azure team made the programming model familiar to developers…
    02 January 2009
    Tags: Studio • Bus • Fabric • Preview • Labs • Instances

  • Microsoft Windows Azure CTP review

    Microsoft's Community Technology Preview reveals in the Windows Azure Services Platform a thoughtfully designed cloud-computing architecture where seasoned .Net developers will feel at home. Microsoft's Community Technology Preview reveals in the…
    17 December 2008
    Tags: Fabric • Scenarios • Instances • Reveals • Programming • Business Advisor

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