Think you know Windows Azure? Think again. You’re invited to preview the latest from Windows Azure at a special online event, June 7 at 1pm PDT (UTC-7). Meet Windows Azure brings together developers and tech entrepreneurs to talk about how they...

Heading to TechEd North America ? Then be sure to attend these sessions to learn how to use the latest Windows Azure features and services to build, deploy, and manage applications in the cloud with sessions delivered by Microsoft senior technical leaders...

Editor’s Note: Today’s post, written by Minitab Enterprise Web Architect Michael Yeaney, describes how the company uses Windows Azure and continuous integration to rapidly build analytics solutions for its customers. Minitab Inc. is the...

As part of the Real World Windows Azure series, I talked with Davide Bedin, Chief Technology Officer at BEDIN Shop Systems, about how the company took a long-term strategic bet on Windows Azure to deliver their aKite retail management solution. Here’s...

Welcome to the latest edition of our weekly roundup of the latest community-driven news, content and conversations about cloud computing and Windows Azure . Here are the highlights from this week. Articles and Blog Posts Windows Azure and Java...

Editor’s Note : This post was updated on May 29, 2012 to reflect availability of SQL Azure in the “West US” Region. People’s ears usually perk-up when they hear Windows Azure uses more server compute capacity than was used on...

Editor’s Note: Today’s post, written by Full Scale 180 Principal Trent Swanson, describes how the company uses Windows Azure and database partitioning to build scalable solutions for its customers. Full Scale 180 is a Redmond, Washington...

After working pretty quietly for the last several years on Windows Azure Active Directory—the Microsoft identity management service for organizations—we are excited about the opportunity to start sharing more information about what our team...

As part of the Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows 8 , we recently released a sample library for accessing Service Bus from Windows 8 metro style applications and a sample metro app demonstrating how to use some basic Service Bus functionality. In this...

Have a great mobile, social or web app idea and need help getting it off the ground? Join the upcoming AngelHack weekend (June 23 & 24 in Seattle, Palo Alto, Boston and New York City) and get one-on-one technical guidance and resources from the community...

Welcome to the latest edition of our weekly roundup of the latest community-driven news, content and conversations about cloud computing and Windows Azure . Here are the highlights from this week. Articles and Blog Posts Windows Azure SDK for...

The Bing Search API is now available on the Windows Azure Marketplace ! With this service, you can embed web, image, news, and video search results, as well as related searches and spelling suggestions, to create unique applications and services. You...

Editor’s Note: Today’s post, written by Miguel Parejo, CTO at Softlibrary describes how the company uses Windows Azure and the Windows Azure Marketplace to run and sell its multi-tenant information management service. Softlibrary is a company...

One of the best ways to learn about Windows Azure is through our online events, free of charge, right from your favorite device. Today we are announcing a new event, MEET Windows Azure . Whether you’re just getting started or are a long time customer...

Security is often reported as one of the top concerns or barriers to cloud adoption for businesses. To help dispel this perception, today Microsoft released r esearch that shows that small and medium sized businesses (SMB) are gaining significant IT security...

Think you know Windows Azure? Think again. You’re invited to preview the latest from Windows Azure at a special online event, June 7 at 1pm PDT (UTC-7). Meet Windows Azure brings together developers and tech entrepreneurs to talk about how they...

Editor’s Note: Today’s post, written by Minitab Enterprise Web Architect Michael Yeaney, describes how the company uses Windows Azure and continuous integration to rapidly build analytics solutions for its customers. Minitab Inc. is the...

As part of the Real World Windows Azure series, I talked with Davide Bedin, Chief Technology Officer at BEDIN Shop Systems, about how the company took a long-term strategic bet on Windows Azure to deliver their aKite retail management solution. Here’s...

Editor’s Note : This post was updated on May 29, 2012 to reflect availability of SQL Azure in the “West US” Region. People’s ears usually perk-up when they hear Windows Azure uses more server compute capacity than was used on...

Editor’s Note: Today’s post, written by Full Scale 180 Principal Trent Swanson, describes how the company uses Windows Azure and database partitioning to build scalable solutions for its customers. Full Scale 180 is a Redmond, Washington...

After working pretty quietly for the last several years on Windows Azure Active Directory—the Microsoft identity management service for organizations—we are excited about the opportunity to start sharing more information about what our team...

As part of the Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows 8 , we recently released a sample library for accessing Service Bus from Windows 8 metro style applications and a sample metro app demonstrating how to use some basic Service Bus functionality. In this...

Have a great mobile, social or web app idea and need help getting it off the ground? Join the upcoming AngelHack weekend (June 23 & 24 in Seattle, Palo Alto, Boston and New York City) and get one-on-one technical guidance and resources from the community...

One of the best ways to learn about Windows Azure is through our online events, free of charge, right from your favorite device. Today we are announcing a new event, MEET Windows Azure . Whether you’re just getting started or are a long time customer...

Security is often reported as one of the top concerns or barriers to cloud adoption for businesses. To help dispel this perception, today Microsoft released r esearch that shows that small and medium sized businesses (SMB) are gaining significant IT security...

Security is often reported as one of the top concerns or barriers to cloud adoption for businesses. To help dispel this perception, today Microsoft released r esearch that shows that small and medium sized businesses (SMB) are gaining significant IT security...

Recent updates to the Windows Azure Marketplace promise to make things a little bit easier for publishers, developers and their customers. First, we’ve introduced promotion codes! Publishers can now create special discounted offers for their...

The Bing Search API is now available on the Windows Azure Marketplace ! With this service, you can embed web, image, news, and video search results, as well as related searches and spelling suggestions, to create unique applications and services. You...

One of the best ways to learn about Windows Azure is through our online events, free of charge, right from your favorite device. Today we are announcing a new event, MEET Windows Azure . Whether you’re just getting started or are a long time customer...

Security is often reported as one of the top concerns or barriers to cloud adoption for businesses. To help dispel this perception, today Microsoft released r esearch that shows that small and medium sized businesses (SMB) are gaining significant IT security...

Our friends over at Twilio have been working to make it easier for developers to integrate text message and phone services into applications hosted on Windows Azure using native libraries for Java, PHP and .NET . To sweeten the pot, Twilio and Windows...