PDC09, Microsoft’s Professional Developer Conference is all set to kick off on 17th November. Among many exciting technologies, Windows Azure will be one of the highlights of the event. Windows Azure is a cloud based services operating system that provides developers on-demand computing environment, storage for hosting and scalability purposes...

Steve Marx, a Microsoftie who works on Windows Azure, has created a video with narration called What is Windows Azure. Completely drawn by Steve, he starts with a very simple introduction to cloud computing and why we need it and then on to Windows Azure and its components. This video even helped me to get a better understanding of how cloud...

Details for Microsoft’s Windows Azure cloud computing service have been revealed. Many different plans have been announced with one that charges per consumption and one with discount rates on 6 month commitments. Consumption Plan (Pay as you go)12 cents per hour. 15 cents per gigabyte for storage. 10 cents per 10,000 storage transactions. Bandwidth...