Microsoft launches Windows Azure

Posted by Anuj Seth

October 27, 2008

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On Monday, Microsoft announced Windows Azure, a new cloud services operating system that runs over the Internet from inside Microsoft’s own data centers. [via cnet]

Windows Azure serves as the development, service hosting and service management environment for the Azure Services Platform. Windows Azure provides developers with on-demand compute and storage to host, scale, and manage Web applications on the Internet through Microsoft data centers.

From the Microsoft website:

To build these applications and services, developers can use their existing Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 expertise. In addition, Windows Azure supports popular standards and protocols including SOAP, REST, and XML. Windows Azure is an open platform that will support both Microsoft and non-Microsoft languages and environments.

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