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."

Comments

Ooh, a new color!

[waferbuster]

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.

Re:This should be good

[Renderer of Evil]

Subject says it all.

It's really hard to argue with such an extensive and reasoned argument.

Re:Does anyone use this?

[Anonymous Coward]

I am waiting for Cloud 9.

Re:Not going anywhere

[Renderer of Evil]

Phase 6: Pay Kramer $150 to appear in 2 commercials with Steve Balmer

Re:Frankly...

[Bill, Shooter of Bul]

You might not be interested in the cloud, but the cloud is interested in you.

I was waiting for this

[symbolset]

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.

Re:I was waiting for this

[DaveAtFraud]

Ah yes, but now the blue for the BSOD is "sky blue."

Cheers,
Dave

Re:I was waiting for this

[mazarin5]

In other words: Next version of Windows will be so bloated, it won't operate on only a single computer.

Microsoft's APIs are world class

[symbolset]

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.

Re:Does anyone use this?

[twostix]

Your Sig -

"Slashdot, where telling the truth is overrated but lying is insightful."

You're currently at +4 insightful, you must be lying.

Am I correct?

[speaker4thedead]

So... Basically MS has finally created an operating system so freakin' big that it won't fit onto a single computer?

Re:learn to use close your tags.

[Tubal-Cain]

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).

Re:Security boundary?

[jonaskoelker]

What's the security boundary between customers based on?

Leprechauns.