Fujitsu announced the global availability of a new line of middleware products to support the Windows Azure Platform, which comes on the heels of their announcement of the Fujitsu Global Cloud Platform service, powered by Windows Azure . The middleware...

As part of the Real World Windows Azure series, we talked to David Holecek, Digital Strategy Manager at Volvo Car Corporation about using Windows Azure to host the company’s interactive, online game that has a tie-in to the Twilight movie franchise...

Good news for all PHP and Java developers: today we are publishing some Windows Azure AppFabric Service Bus samples just for you. Since the AppFabric Service Bus REST API can be used from almost all programming languages and operating systems, it makes...

Wade Wegner just announced in his blog post, “Windows Azure Toolkit for iOS Now Supports the Access Control Service” the release of an update to the Windows Azure Toolkit for iOS . This new version of the toolkit includes three key components...

We’re pleased to announce four new Getting Started Tutorials that will help developers and IT pros who are interested in trying out Windows Azure to get up-and-running quickly. In addition to these tutorials, we just launched a new tutorials section...

We are very excited today to announce our latest content release, which makes some great new data available on the Windows Azure Marketplace, as well as the release of our new Offer Submission page! Are you looking to publish your application or data...

Today we are excited to announce several updates and enhancements made to the Windows Azure AppFabric Management Portal and the Access Control service. Management Portal Localization As announced in the blog post on the Windows Azure team blog...

We're very happy to announce the new Windows Azure Code Samples Gallery that makes it easier for you to find the code samples that you need and provides the ability to add and maintain code samples in our growing catalog. This page is built on Microsoft...

As part of the Real World Windows Azure series, we talked to Henning Volkmer, CEO of ThinPrint, Inc. , about using the Windows Azure platform to deliver its innovative print solution. Here’s what he had to say: MSDN: Provide a quick overview...

This post was just published on the AppFabric Team Blog. In this tutorial, Alan Smith (MVP) uses the Windows Azure AppFabric June CTP to create a basic custom external service to call the BingMaps Geocode service. This is a great starting point on...

This post by Justin Beckwith was just published on the AppFabric Team Blog. As the hosting of applications moves from our local staging environments to the cloud, one of the areas that needs to improve is the ability to include deployment in our automated...

You’ve just built the best Zombie-Ninja-gardening game for Facebook. The game was steadily gaining popularity and then you were “ boingboinged .” Two minutes later your servers melted and your users moved on to the next game. For most...

Winners of the ninth annual Microsoft Imagine Cup were announced last Wednesday night at the Imagine Cup World Festival and Awards Ceremony at the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center in New York. Ireland’s team Hermes took home top honors in...

This post by adamab originally appeared last Friday, July 15, 2011 on the AppFabric Team Blog. In the previous blog post on developing AppFabric Applications, we showed you how to create a simple AppFabric application. This app was an ASP.NET web site...

This post by Vikram Desai originally appeared last Friday, July 15, 2011 on the AppFabric Team Blog. In this post, we will go through developing an AppFabric application that contains a web frontend and a database. Before we can develop an application...

Good news for all PHP and Java developers: today we are publishing some Windows Azure AppFabric Service Bus samples just for you. Since the AppFabric Service Bus REST API can be used from almost all programming languages and operating systems, it makes...

Wade Wegner just announced in his blog post, “Windows Azure Toolkit for iOS Now Supports the Access Control Service” the release of an update to the Windows Azure Toolkit for iOS . This new version of the toolkit includes three key components...

We’re pleased to announce four new Getting Started Tutorials that will help developers and IT pros who are interested in trying out Windows Azure to get up-and-running quickly. In addition to these tutorials, we just launched a new tutorials section...

We're very happy to announce the new Windows Azure Code Samples Gallery that makes it easier for you to find the code samples that you need and provides the ability to add and maintain code samples in our growing catalog. This page is built on Microsoft...

This post by Justin Beckwith was just published on the AppFabric Team Blog. As the hosting of applications moves from our local staging environments to the cloud, one of the areas that needs to improve is the ability to include deployment in our automated...

You’ve just built the best Zombie-Ninja-gardening game for Facebook. The game was steadily gaining popularity and then you were “ boingboinged .” Two minutes later your servers melted and your users moved on to the next game. For most...

This post by adamab originally appeared last Friday, July 15, 2011 on the AppFabric Team Blog. In the previous blog post on developing AppFabric Applications, we showed you how to create a simple AppFabric application. This app was an ASP.NET web site...

This post by Vikram Desai originally appeared last Friday, July 15, 2011 on the AppFabric Team Blog. In this post, we will go through developing an AppFabric application that contains a web frontend and a database. Before we can develop an application...

We are excited to announce the release of the Windows Azure Accelerator for Web Roles . This accelerator makes it quick and easy for you to deploy one or more websites across multiple Web Role instances using Web Deploy in less than 30 seconds. Feature...

The Windows Azure Content Delivery Network (CDN) helps improve the solution experience by putting content closer to the end-user, enhances availability, geo-distribution, scalability, lower latency delivery, and performance. If that’s the goal,...

News from WPC11 this week has demonstrated that the partner opportunity with Microsoft has never been stronger. Validating that opportunity, a recently commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting, “The ISV Business Case For The Windows...

Jared Wray is the CTO and architect of the Tier 3’s Enterprise Cloud Platform. Wray founded Tier 3 in 2006 to address the emerging need for enterprise on-demand services. Wray oversees the company’s development, support and operations teams...

Fujitsu announced the global availability of a new line of middleware products to support the Windows Azure Platform, which comes on the heels of their announcement of the Fujitsu Global Cloud Platform service, powered by Windows Azure . The middleware...

You’ve just built the best Zombie-Ninja-gardening game for Facebook. The game was steadily gaining popularity and then you were “ boingboinged .” Two minutes later your servers melted and your users moved on to the next game. For most...

We’re about to make some updates to the SQL Azure service, which will pave the way for some significant enhancements and announcements we plan to make later this year. This July 2011 Service Release is foundational in many ways, with significant...

Yesterday at WPC11 in Los Angeles, we announced CTP 3 of SQL Server Codename “Denali”, which includes a key new feature called Data Quality Services. Data Quality Services enables customers to cleanse their existing data stored in SQL databases...

Launched last November, the Windows Azure Marketplace is an online marketplace for developers to share, find, buy and sell building block components, training, service templates, premium data sets plus finished services and applications needed to build...