The latest Steven Spielberg film, War Horse tells the story of a horse’s journey to the World War 1 battlefields of Flanders. To help promote the film and bring its history to life, UK-based developers at Shoothill have developed the website, The...

If you plan to attend CodeMash next week in Sandusky, Ohio, don’t miss the full-day pre-compiler session, Building Social Games using HTML5 with Windows 8, Windows Azure, and .NET , which will cover the development of social games and feature Windows...

Mobile usage in Japan is among the highest in the world, with over 90% of the population using mobile devices. More than 90% of these users have mobile data plans, which are commonly 3G-enabled. And while 75% of these mobile internet users are tapping...

It has been just over three months since we made the SQL Azure Data Sync Preview release available in the Windows Azure portal. We are thrilled with the adoption of the service and are pleased to make available an updated preview release with some requested...

As you may have noticed in the Windows Azure developer portal, we recently released a new management API for Windows Azure Traffic Manager. The new API improves Traffic Manager by allowing developers and IT professionals to script interactions with the...

Last month we launched our new Windows Azure SDK for Node.js. The release came after months of hard work between Microsoft and Joyent . Since that time we’ve seen a lot of excitement in the Node community around the support for Node.js in Windows...

We are pleased to announce the general availability of SQL Azure Import/Export! Now available as a production service, SQL Azure Import/Export helps organizations deploy on-premises databases to SQL Azure , and archive SQL Azure and SQL Server databases...

We have been getting requests from customers for guidance when to use each of the two cloud-based queuing services offered today on Windows Azure : Windows Azure Queues and Windows Azure Service Bus Queues. To address this, we have put together an...

Hi, I’m Pankaj Arora, a senior manager in the Microsoft IT Global Strategic Initiatives team. When Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer publicly declared “We’re all in” on cloud computing in March 2010, he wasn’t just referring...

Hi, I’m Pankaj Arora, a senior manager in the Microsoft IT Global Strategic Initiatives team. When Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer publicly declared “We’re all in” on cloud computing in March 2010, he wasn’t just referring...

Today Microsoft announced BizSpark Plus, an extension of the BizSpark program, which provides higher value offers to startup accelerators around the globe. BizSpark Plus will provide up to $60,000 in Windows Azure compute and storage to select startup...

We are thrilled to announce that two of the four grants program for Imagine Cup will be deploying their programs on Windows Azure . The program is focused on providing opportunities for young people by helping competitors create a business or non-profit...

Last month we launched our new Windows Azure SDK for Node.js. The release came after months of hard work between Microsoft and Joyent . Since that time we’ve seen a lot of excitement in the Node community around the support for Node.js in Windows...