Today we are happy to announce another price reduction for Windows Azure Storage by as much as 28%, effective on December 12 th . This follows our March 8 th 2012 reduction of 12% furthering our commitment to best overall value in the industry. Reducing...

In the video below, David Heckerman, Distinguished Scientist, Microsoft Research, talks about the work he and his team conducted using data from the genome-wide association study (GWAS). Their goal is to find associations between genetics, disease and...

After we delivered iOS client libraries for Mobile Services in October, many of you asked when support for iOS push notifications would follow. As Scott Guthrie announced Wednesday , Mobile Services now supports sending iOS push notifications! We’ve...

Editor's note: This post comes from Mark Brown, Windows Azure Community Manager . 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 is...

A trip to the Microsoft Accelerator for Windows Azure last week reinforced my belief that cloud computing has made this simultaneously the most exciting and the most competitive time to be a startup. The consumption-based cloud model lets you quickly...

In the past few months we’ve really been fleshing out our cli and surfacing more and more Azure services to your fingertips, literally! In this release there is a lot of goodness, I think you are going to like what you see! Here’s a quick...

Howdy folks, Over the last few months as we’ve continued to add richer and richer capabilities into the developer preview of Windows Azure Active Directory (AD), one of the most common questions you’ve asked us is how Windows Azure AD and...

Over the past couple of months, the startups in the Microsoft Accelerator for Windows Azure have been mentored by business and technology leaders, met with investors, learned from each other, and, most importantly, built great products. You can learn...

Editor's Note: This post comes from Mingfei Yan , Program Manager for Windows Azure Media Team. I am pleased to announce that Windows Azure Media Services team is releasing a Windows Azure Media Player Framework Preview for iOS. This new framework...

Editor's note: This post comes from Kent Brown, Sr. Product Manager for BizTalk . BizTalk Summit 2012 is a series of events conducted by the Microsoft BizTalk product team to help customers understand the product strategy and roadmap and to prepare...

This morning we released a number of enhancements to Windows Azure. These new capabilities include: Mobile Services (job scheduler support, Europe Region Support, Command Line Support) Web Sites (scale improvements, integrated source control...

Welcome to the latest edition of our weekly roundup of the latest community-driven news, content and conversations about cloud computing and Windows Azure. I would like to take this opportunity to introduce Mark Brown, the Windows Azure community manager...

Editor's note: This post comes from Il-Sung Lee, SQL Server Engine Security Program Manager. Earlier this year, we announced the availability of HIPAA Business Associate Agreement (BAA) for Windows Azure Core Services. I’m sure many of you are...

Tracking Santa is a big job and this year the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) team, Windows Azure, Bing Maps and all of Santa’s elves worked together to bring you the Official NORAD Santa Tracker . NORAD has been tracking Santa...

Editor's note: This is a cross-post written by Samuel Lester , SQL Tester. While many options exist to migrate your On-Premise SQL Server to Windows Azure SQL Database, none currently provide an easy method to perform bulk migration for large numbers...

Editor's Note: This post comes from Mingfei Yan , Program Manager for Windows Azure Media Team. I am pleased to announce that Windows Azure Media Services team is releasing a Windows Azure Media Player Framework Preview for iOS. This new framework...

This morning we released a number of enhancements to Windows Azure. These new capabilities include: Mobile Services (job scheduler support, Europe Region Support, Command Line Support) Web Sites (scale improvements, integrated source control...

Editor's note: This blog post comes from David Magar, Program Manager, Windows Azure SQL Reporting. Although it’s tempting to take an existing Reporting Services project and push it out to the cloud as-is, you really shouldn’t. A report...

A few weeks ago I posted about a number of improvements to Windows Azure Mobile Services. One of these was the addition of an Objective-C client SDK that allows iOS developers to easily use Mobile Services for data and authentication. Today I'm excited...

Today we are happy to announce another price reduction for Windows Azure Storage by as much as 28%, effective on December 12 th . This follows our March 8 th 2012 reduction of 12% furthering our commitment to best overall value in the industry. Reducing...

In the video below, David Heckerman, Distinguished Scientist, Microsoft Research, talks about the work he and his team conducted using data from the genome-wide association study (GWAS). Their goal is to find associations between genetics, disease and...

Today we are happy to announce another price reduction for Windows Azure Storage by as much as 28%, effective on December 12 th . This follows our March 8 th 2012 reduction of 12% furthering our commitment to best overall value in the industry. Reducing...

Howdy folks, Over the last few months as we’ve continued to add richer and richer capabilities into the developer preview of Windows Azure Active Directory (AD), one of the most common questions you’ve asked us is how Windows Azure AD and...

This morning we released a number of enhancements to Windows Azure. These new capabilities include: Mobile Services (job scheduler support, Europe Region Support, Command Line Support) Web Sites (scale improvements, integrated source control...

Tracking Santa is a big job and this year the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) team, Windows Azure, Bing Maps and all of Santa’s elves worked together to bring you the Official NORAD Santa Tracker . NORAD has been tracking Santa...

Howdy folks, Just a quick note with some cool news. Many of you may not have realized that the developer preview of Windows Azure Active Directory (AD) supports the JSON Web Token (JWT). We just haven’t talked about it much in this blog or...