As part of the Real World Windows Azure series, we talked to Richard Prodger, Technical Director at Active Web Solutions (AWS), about using the Windows Azure platform to deliver the company's search-and-rescue application and the benefits that Windows...

Earlier in March, we informed you about the upcoming commercial availability of Windows Azure platform AppFabric . Today, we are absolutely thrilled to let you know that AppFabric has now become a fully SLA-supported paid service . Customers using AppFabric...

Update: We are happy to inform you that as of April 12, 2010, Windows Azure platform AppFabric has transitioned to commercial availability and is now a fully SLA-supported paid service. More details available here . Starting today, the Microsoft Windows...

Would you like to know how to leverage your existing ASP.NET skills to build Windows Azure applications? Then be sure to check out two new articles, Cloud Development in Visual Studio 2010 and Developing and Deploying Windows Azure Apps in Visual Studio...

As part of the Real World Windows Azure series, we talked to Patricio Jutard, CTO at Three Melons, about using the Windows Azure platform to deliver Bola-an online soccer game available on social networks, such as Facebook and Orkut. Here's what he had...

The Windows Azure platform AppFabric April Release is now live. In addition to improvements in stability, scale, and performance, this release addresses two previously communicated issues in the March billing preview release . We recommend that you re...

As we announced at MIX 2010, .NET 4 will be available in Windows Azure within 90 days of .NET 4 RTM. As part of our preparation for that, the latest operating system build available in Windows Azure contains the .NET 4 RC. Although you cannot use this...

[This article was contributed by the SQL Azure team.] Yesterday afternoon we reported an intermittent connection issue and I am happy to report that the issue has been identified and resolved. The issue was tracked to an out of data Kerberos encryption...

Yesterday afternoon we reported an intermittent connection issue and I am happy to report that the issue has been identified and resolved. The issue was tracked to an out of data Kerberos encryption policy on one of our machines. As an additional heads...

[This article was contributed by the SQL Azure team.] SQL Azure has been yellow on the Windows Azure Platform dashboard for a few days and I wanted to take a moment to brief you on why and what we are doing to correct it. A small number of customers are...

SQL Azure has been yellow on the Windows Azure Platform dashboard for a few days and I wanted to take a moment to brief you on why and what we are doing to correct it. A small number of customers are seeing intermittent connection issues and so we flipped...

As part of the Real World Windows Azure series, we talked to Andy Lapin, Director of Enterprise Architecture at Kelley Blue Book about using the Windows Azure platform to create the company's premier Web site and the benefits that Windows Azure provides...

Following PDC09 last fall, we announced support for running Java and Tomcat in Windows Azure, but this doesn't mean Tomcat is the only Java application container supported in Windows Azure. In fact, the approach basically consists of creating a Java Runtime...

Would you like to know how to leverage your existing ASP.NET skills to build Windows Azure applications? Then be sure to check out two new articles, Cloud Development in Visual Studio 2010 and Developing and Deploying Windows Azure Apps in Visual Studio...

Today at the Politics Online Conference in Washington, D.C. Microsoft launched TownHall , a new Windows Azure-hosted engagement platform that fosters, moderates and houses conversations between groups. As you may have seen on today's Microsoft on the...

Update: We are happy to inform you that as of April 12, 2010, Windows Azure platform AppFabric has transitioned to commercial availability and is now a fully SLA-supported paid service. More details available here . Starting today, the Microsoft Windows...