Microsoft launches Windows Azure | An Operating system in the Cloud?

Monday, October 27, 2008  //  0 Comments  //  Blog, Cloud Computing, Emerging Trends

An Operating System in the Cloud?  Could it be?….

LOS ANGELES–Microsoft on Monday announced a version of Windows that runs over the Internet from inside Microsoft’s own data centers.

Dubbed Windows Azure, it’s less a replacement for the operating system that runs on one’s own PC than it is an alternative for developers, intended to let them write programs that live inside Microsoft’s data centers as opposed to on the servers of a given business.

“It’s a transformation of our software and a transformation of our strategy,” said Ray Ozzie, a computing industry pioneer who now serves as Microsoft’s chief software architect. (For a play-by-play account of Ozzie’s speech, see “PDC 2008: Windows Azure live blog.”)

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