Azure has been available since Feb. 1, 2010 and Microsoft has been promoting it as the cloud development platform for ISVs and partners. Some observers noted the irony that it took Microsoft more than ...

Microsoft will rebrand its cloud platform from 'Windows Azure' to 'Microsoft Azure' as part of the company's push to emphasize its cross-platform services prowess. Mary Jo Foley Mary Jo Foley has ...

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Microsoft has published updated lifecycle support information for Windows Azure Pack, claiming that its datacenter solution for organizations and service providers is "far from being dead." The newly ...

Yesterday was Microsoft’s big “Patch Tuesday,” which unleashed various security updates against 56 new vulnerabilities. This rounds out the year with a whopping total of 1,139 vulnerabilities fixed ...

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What is Microsoft Windows Azure? That was never an easy question to answer. And it has only become more difficult now that Microsoft has unveiled several new additions to its online service. The short ...

Drawing out the definition a bit more, Windows Azure is an application development and runtime environment (.NET in this case), hosted and managed by Microsoft (within Microsoft “owned and operated” ...

As remote work became the default for many companies during the pandemic, it’s maybe no surprise that services like Microsoft’s Windows Virtual Desktop, which gives users access to a fully managed ...

In some ways, Microsoft's Azure cloud operating environment doesn't seem to have changed much since the Softies first made it available to beta testers almost two years ago. But in other ways -- ...

Microsoft launched Windows Azure, its cloud-based services offering at the recent Professional Developers Conference (PDC). Ray Ozzie, chief software architect at Microsoft, described Windows Azure ...

After years of battling Linux as a competitive threat, Microsoft is now offering Linux-based operating systems on its Windows Azure cloud service. The Linux services will go live on Azure at 4 a.m.