At the PDC Matt Mullenweg of Automattic talked about the open source support on Windows Azure – you can now run Wordpress on Azure with MySQL, Apache and PHP. In fact he did a great follow up post on this talking about what was announced.

Hot on the heels of that is a post from my old pal Simon Davies, an architect in our developer team here in the UK about Ruby On Rails running on Windows Azure. He has it up and running.

Is Azure the most open web development platform out there? it’s starting to look that way….

and then if you’re a startup who is looking to build you can get access to all of the tools, technologies and services (including Azure) for free through our BizSpark program. That’s precisely with Loic and his team from Seesmic did!