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Windows Azure Platform TCO and ROI Calculator Now Available
Today, the Windows Azure team announced the availability of the Windows Azure Platform TCO and ROI Calculator, a new tool for organizations to see how much they could save with the Windows Azure Platform. The tool, available in both online and offline versions, is designed to help measure the potential savings of product development or [...]
Continue reading...PDC 2009 Day 1 Highlights
18. November 2009
Today at the PDC 2009 keynote, Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie announced that its Windows Azure cloud computing platform would go-live on January 1, 2010. The service, announced last year at PDC 2008, is currently available as a free Community Technology Preview (CTP). The service will remain free throughout January and customers will start [...]
Continue reading...Microsoft, Azure, and PHP, Oh My!
14. May 2009
ZDNet’s Mary-Jo Foley reported on the announcement of the PHP SDK for Windows Azure, a Microsoft-funded open source effort developed by RealDolmen. The PHP SDK for Windows Azure, a.k.a. PHPAzure, focuses on REST and provides PHP classes for Windows Azure blobs, tables and queue, helper classes for HTTP transport, AuthN/AuthZ, REST and error management, as [...]
Continue reading...Announcing Microsoft “Azurelight”
14. April 2009
ZDNet’s Mary-Jo Foley reported today on the announcement of a new Microsoft cloud-based product-support service codenamed “Azurelight.” The report comes from Microsoft Architect Aleksey Savateyev who blogged about the reference application he is developing which will use not only Azure and Silverlight (as the name implies), but also Microsoft’s ADO.NET Entity Framework, ADO.NET Data Services [...]
Continue reading....NET Services M5 Released
14. April 2009
On March 31st, Microsoft released .NET Service M5 – the 5th coding milestone of .NET Services, a component of the Azure Services Platform. The M5 release includes improved support for web standards such as as REST, ATOM, SOAP, and HTTP in order to enhance interopability between cloud applications and services across platforms. .NET Services M5 [...]
Continue reading...Windows Mobile 7 Teaser?
5. April 2009
A new Microsoft marketing video, titled “Overnight Success,” appears to hint at the future possibilities to come with Windows Mobile 7, Windows Mobile Marketplace and Windows Azure. The video spot begins with the small team at the fictitious “Delta Software” publishing their mobile app (with amazing simplicity) to the “App Store.” They leave the office [...]
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19. January 2010
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