If you can't wait till then, here's a couple of white papers and links to keep you busy: Azure Services Platform, Windows Azure Table, Windows Azure Blog, and Windows Azure Queue.

At PDC yesterday, Microsoft unveiled its roadmap for the Windows Azure cloud computing platform. Moving beyond mere Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), the company is positioning Windows Azure as ...

In the past year, customers and developers testing Windows Azure have been running primarily brand-new (and largely Web 2.0 style) apps on Microsoft's cloud operating system.

Microsoft Azure is Microsoft's vaunted cloud computing platform. Azure offers a range of cloud-based solutions for the creation and management of applications. Most Azure products use a pay-as-you ...

To put it more succinctly, Windows Azure is an application platform offered as a service (PaaS). PaaS, Explained . PaaS, such as Azure, is at least, one part of cloud computing (albeit nascent).

Microsoft's Azure team is moving toward remaking the platform as a service part of Azure so that it is more 'microservice oriented,' says Mark Russinovich, the Azure Chief Technology Officer.

As the Azure community and partner ecosystem celebrates its 10th birthday, let’s take a look at the major milestones in the evolution of Microsoft’s cloud platform.

The broad initiative enables developers to use the skills they possess with Visual Studio to create applications for Windows Azure. The strategy also taps Microsoft's increasing data center capacity.

Windows Azure Media Services accomplishes this by providing you with a Media Platform as a Service (PaaS) that enables you to easily scale your business as it grows, and pay only for what you use.

Which is why everyone who uses the Azure cloud or runs Windows Server on premises should be thankful for the Productivity and Business Process application software group, which had $29.44 billion in ...