And so Ray Ozzie has announced that Microsoft will deliver a cloud computing platform to sit alongside the new Windows 7. I am of course not going to do any 'ctrl alt delete' jokes, as Ray is most definitely one of my heroes, who I have had the pleasure to meet on more than one occasion.
However, I cant help but feel that after Vista, Office 2007, Exchange 2007 not making much of a splash and causing Microsoft a world of hurt, so much so MS have already announced Windows 7 so soon and the next office, clearly Google's model with Apps Engine has caught the attention of Richmond and Azure is born.
Check out the site: http://www.microsoft.com/azure/windowsazure.mspx
Interesting stuff on the how it works page graphics which show the 'coming soon' for Eclipse, Python et al - So my first question, how much infrastructure and how scalable is the realisation of the graphic above? Anyone? Thats a lot of intel boxes!
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