Windows Azure
Yesterday, at the Microsoft PDC 2008, Ray Ozzie announced in his keynote a new operating environment: Windows Azure, Microsoft’s “Windows in the cloud”. A new service based operating environment.
At the Windows Azure website it’s described as follows:
The Azure™ Services Platform (Azure) is an internet-scale cloud services platform hosted in Microsoft data centers, which provides an operating system and a set of developer services that can be used individually or together.
Azure reduces the need for up-front technology purchases, and it enables developers to quickly and easily create applications running in the cloud by using their existing skills with the Microsoft Visual Studio development environment and the Microsoft .NET Framework. In addition to managed code languages supported by .NET, Azure will support more programming languages and development environments in the near future.
Got your attention? Check it out at: Windows Azure! For event videos and keynote clips go to Presspass.