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Microsoft Announces Windows Azure, Cloud-Based OS
snydeq writes "Microsoft today introduced Windows Azure, its operating system for the cloud. The OS serves as the underlying foundation of the Azure Services Platform to help developers build apps that span from the cloud to the datacenter, to PCs, the Web, and phones. Cloud-based developer capabilities are combined with storage, computational, and network infrastructure services, which are hosted on servers within Microsoft's global data center network."
Windows Azureus.
Replacing the BSOD with the ASOD.
Except with ASOD, you wont know whos SOD it is...
I get it now. If you disagree with the majority on
According to Wikipedia, "Azure is a blue color, halfway between blue and cyan. Commonly it refers to a bright blue, resembling the sky on a bright, clear day."
So, now we can look forward to seeing a soothing Azure Screen of Death.
I'm an individual! Just like everyone else!
BizTalk plus .NET, add a little FrontPage, a dash of Silverlight and mix it all up on a hosted server. For some reason I just had flashbacks to the Bass-o-Matic on SNL.
That's our life, the big wheel of shit. - The Fat Man, Blue Tango Salvage
It's really hard to argue with such an extensive and reasoned argument.
I am waiting for Cloud 9.
Phase 6: Pay Kramer $150 to appear in 2 commercials with Steve Balmer
There is something seriously wrong with that boy. Some kind of obsessive compulsive disorder that makes him focus every waking moment of every living day into posting articles about the evils of MS (er... M$) while fellating Stallman (or, RMS as he likes to call him).
One day his trolling will stop, and there will be a blurb of an obituary that nobody bothers to read. "Man takes own life, blames Microsoft for releasing a product he actually likes."
You might not be interested in the cloud, but the cloud is interested in you.
Well.. maybe. Or Maybe not. But Definitely not sort of.
What about Synapse? Tim Robbins failed on his promise. :(
I cant wait to see how sucktacular it is. All the reliability and stability of Microsoft software delivered through Microsoft's legendary networking skill.
Friends, the LHC has nothing on this. We're about to see an example of negative energy, when modern physics had all but proved it completely impossible.
Help stamp out iliturcy.
Microsoft couldn't write a decent API if their lives depended on it.
Microsoft's APIs are seamless, coherent and reliably engineered. They are flexible enough to enable seamless integration of all their apps into every aspect of the operating system in such a way that they seem to be part of it. They even build into the APIs current developers of their apps need to implement various features.
Although I'm a Windows programmer by training,
Oh. You mean the APIs they let you use. Never mind.
Help stamp out iliturcy.
Freddy's undecided on that. Call it denial.
"Violence is the last refuge of the competent, and, generally, the first refuge of the incompetent" - Thing_1
Your Sig -
"Slashdot, where telling the truth is overrated but lying is insightful."
You're currently at +4 insightful, you must be lying.
Whenever I want to join the cloud, I just turn off the virus checker. Instant distributed computing.
I'll have automatically joined the largest distributed transnational computing grid on the planet, and all without any installation hassle.
Personally I look forward to Azure; if it's anything like their previous products, it will excel at NOT doing distributed computing, and thus be virus-proof.
I can see it now: "Virus writers throw up their hands with Microsoft's new distributed computing OS. 'The API is too complicated. We give up. It was easier to hack the TCP stack in assembly.'"
So... Basically MS has finally created an operating system so freakin' big that it won't fit onto a single computer?
"My religion is to live --and die-- without regret." -- Milarepa
Where'd you get one of those? Be careful with it; I hear they are very fragile (and if carefully protected from sunlight, it may eventually become one of us).
I wonder if the Azure site is hosted on Azure. If so, then the "internal server error" I just got is probably a sign of things to come...
What's the security boundary between customers based on?
Leprechauns.