Joe Belfiore announced the Mango features including the following at MIX 11 : IE9 support leverages HTML5 rendering engine similar to the one on desktop. That means hardware accelerated HTML5 Audio and Video (H264) playback is supported without the need...

Microsoft just announced Windows Azure Traffic Manager CTP (Community Technology Preview) during the keynote at MIX 11. The Traffic Manager allows the deployment of the same application to topologically dispersed data centers enabling the distribution...

At the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) conference today, Microsoft announced IIS Smooth Streaming through Windows Azure CDN (Content Delivery Network) infrastructure. Previously Windows Azure CDN only supported structured and unstructured file...

My colleague Bart Robertson has posted a nice blog about his deployment experiences on Window Azure platform: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/bartr/archive/2011/04/05/sxp-one-year-later.aspx . Agility, Elasticity, Performance, Availability, and cost advantage...