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Wednesday, March 18, 2009 6:12 PM

Windows Azure Delivers New CTP Capabilities

Since we announced our Community Technology Preview (CTP) in November our team has gathered input from customers all over the world in every major industry. The feedback is very helpful in this early stage of the CTP as we prioritize new features. Today
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Wednesday, March 18, 2009 5:56 PM

Using 3rd Party Programming Languages via FastCGI

One of our goals for MIX was to give our developers more flexibility while ensuring they still benefit from the unique time-saving deployment, monitoring, and management features of Windows Azure. One way in which we went about this was to enable IIS
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Wednesday, March 18, 2009 5:49 PM

Hosting Roles Under .NET Full Trust

One of the great things about Windows Azure is that it handles the deployment, monitoring, and management of your service so that you have more time to focus on the business logic. Until recently, realizing these benefits meant your code had to run under
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Wednesday, March 18, 2009 5:44 PM

Geo Location Enables Developers To Choose Data Centers and Group Applications & Storage

At MIX 09, we are announcing that we’ll be launching a set of ‘geo’-related features. We’ll be rolling out the features to all our users very soon. In Microsoft-speak, we are ‘super-excited’ about this since we can finally unveil in public what we’ve
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Wednesday, March 18, 2009 3:34 AM

The Windows Azure Malfunction This Weekend

First things first: we're sorry. As a result of a malfunction in Windows Azure, many participants in our Community Technology Preview (CTP) experienced degraded service or downtime. Windows Azure storage was unaffected. In the rest of this post, I'd like
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Wednesday, March 11, 2009 9:12 AM

SQL Data Services announces plans to accelerate core relational database features

Developers using the Windows Azure CTP have been asking about the roadmap for SQL Data Services. Today the team detailed some important announcements most importantly they will deliver full relational database capabilities delivered as a service. Also
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Saturday, March 07, 2009 1:17 AM

Moving to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) starting this Sunday

As a follow-up to our earlier post " Moving to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) ", I'd like to announce that we've locked down on a timeline. We'll begin the migration to UTC starting this Sunday, March 8th, at 10:00am GMT. For details about the change
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