Today we released the Community Technology Preview of the first three .NET Services: Access Control, Service Bus and Workflow Service. Over the last few months we have worked hard to bring you these three services: we looked at some of the hard problems...

Today at PDC, Ray Ozzie announced our all up cloud services platform. It was a great day for a whole bunch of us who have worked on the database part of the platform for the past 2 years. We announced our cloud compute, storage and management service...

[This article was contributed by the SQL Azure team.] Here is a little teaser on what we are up to from a direction perspective. Dave Campbell talks about what to expect at PDC 2008 as we extend our Data Platform to the Cloud. As I said before, Dave has...

Here is a little teaser on what we are up to from a direction perspective. Dave Campbell talks about what to expect at PDC 2008 as we extend our Data Platform to the Cloud. As I said before, Dave has been involved with everything SQL since the very beginning...

Don't miss the latest session of the WIF Workshop recordings , which covers the use of Microsoft Windows Identity Foundation (WIF) in Windows Azure and provides practical advice on aspects of distributed development such as handling NLB sessions, certificate...

If you're interested in getting a great overview of Windows Azure diagnostics, you should make time to read a new article in MSDN Magazine by former Microsoft engineer Mike Kelly , which explains how Windows Azure diagnostics fit into the general System...

A new post on the Interoperability team blog outlines a use case showcasing a new plugin for WordPress that enables users to use Windows Azure Storage Service to host media for a WordPress powered blog. The plugin, developed by Microsoft, is now available...

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...

Have you checked out the Cloud Cover Video series ? In each episode of this popular and informative series, Ryan Dunn and Steve Marx cover the Windows Azure platform, dig into features, discuss the latest news and announcements, and share tips and tricks...

One of the exciting announcements we made last week at SXSW Interactive 2010 was the release of the Windows Azure Toolkit for Facebook . This new toolkit, built by Thuzi in collaboration with Microsoft, enables developers to rapidly develop Facebook applications...

During his MIX10 session in Las Vegas yesterday, Building PHP Applications using the Windows Azure Platform , Sumit Chawla, Technical PM/Architect, Microsoft Interoperability Strategy Team, announced the new Windows Azure Command-line Tools for PHP Community...

Today we are providing access to a beta release of Windows Azure Drive (announced as XDrive at PDC 2009). Customers have told us that they want to take their already running Windows applications and run them in the cloud using the standard Windows NTFS...

The Microsoft Corporate Strategy Group has just released a new whitepaper, "The Economics of the Cloud" , which details underlying the economics driving IT's shift towards the cloud. This paper, written by Rolf Harms, director of the Corporate Strategy...

Cloud platforms are a new world, and they open new possibilities. Reflecting this, the Windows Azure programming model helps developers create applications that are easier to administer, more available, and more scalable than those built using traditional...

You may have seen a letter in USA Today this morning suggesting that customers evaluating a licensing agreement with VMWare talk to Microsoft to learn more about how products and services such as the Windows Azure platform can enable a complete cloud...

Windows Azure must provide confidentiality, integrity, and availability of customer data, while also enabling transparent accountability. To help customers better understand the array of security controls implemented within Windows Azure from both...

Chris C. Kemp is CTO of NASA, a position he has held since March of 2010. Before that appointment, he was NASA's CIO and was in charge of the Ames Research Center, the Security Operations Center, and various other facilities. Chris started with NASA as...

I'm Robert Duffner, director of Product Management for Windows Azure and I'm kicking off a new series of blog posts where I will be interviewing thought leaders in cloud computing. I'll be reaching out broadly across the globe to industry, public sector...

Today, in less than three months since its announcement , Microsoft’s Windows Azure team has announced a refresh to the Windows Azure SDK and Windows Azure tools for Visual Studio. The Community Technology Preview (CTP), announced at Microsoft’s PDC ...