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Microsoft Announces Windows Azure, Cloud-Based OS

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the do-you-feel-azure-after-use dept.

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."

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  1. Re:Not going anywhere by morgan_greywolf · · Score: 5, Informative

    It'll take baby-steps and corrections along the way, but so far this is the first real attempt at it.

    Wrong. No Microsoft paycheck for you.

    Google, Sun, Alexa, Amazon, GoGrid, Skytap, 3tera, Apache Hadoop, 3Par -- these companies/projects have all been doing cloud computing -- some for as long as the last 5 years. Microsoft is the johnny-come-lately here.

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  2. Re:Does anyone use this? by ceoyoyo · · Score: 4, Informative

    Hey, happy to help. Grab a VNC client (there are lots of free ones for every platform) and set up your computer as a VNC server. If you've got a Mac it's one box you have to check.

    It's kinda slow, but I'm pretty sure it'll be faster than an OS written in Javascript, running inside a web browser. Also, your data stays your own and you don't have to be beholden to Microsoft to use it.