Wanna learn about the future of software + services well wait no longer Windows Azure is here and below are some great links for you to learn all about the movement!  Thanks to Danny Garber for putting this great list of links together.

Blogs

Articles

Visual Studio development

Screencast of how to use azure tools
http://blogs.msdn.com/jnak/archive/2008/10/28/video-walkthrough-a-quick-lap-around-windows-azure-tools-for-microsoft-visual-studio.aspx

Quick lap around VS2008 azure tools (very nice)
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd203059.aspx

Service project vs. Role project
http://blogs.msdn.com/jnak/archive/2008/10/27/cloud-service-project-vs-role-project.aspx

Development fabric & storage integration
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd203061.aspx

Deployment
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd203057.aspx

Azure training kit
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=413E88F8-5966-4A83-B309-53B7B77EDF78&displaylang=en

Degugging storage
http://blogs.msdn.com/jnak/archive/2008/11/01/how-to-diagnose-and-fix-windows-azure-storage-service-issues.aspx

Integrating LiveID/AD into Azure projects
http://dev.live.com/blogs/devlive/archive/2008/11/12/432.aspx

New role templates

Enabling Windows live tools in Visual studio
http://blogs.msdn.com/vikasahuja/archive/2008/10/31/windows-live-tools-november-2008-ctp-enabled-for-windows-azure.aspx

F# worker role
http://blogs.msdn.com/gusperez/archive/2008/10/31/f-worker-role-type-available-now-too.aspx

Azure

Azure management tools
http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/AzureManagementTools

Live services poster
http://dev.live.com/liveframework/livefxposter.pdf

Whitepapers

Azure services platform
http://download.microsoft.com/download/e/4/3/e43bb484-3b52-4fa8-a9f9-ec60a32954bc/Azure_Services_Platform.docx

Azure blobs
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=131258

Azure Tables
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=131257