Microsoft unveiled a major initiative today: Windows Azure. Azure is a "cloud services operating system": specifically, a single platform providing complete cloud-based development, hosting, and ...

In February Microsoft offered cloud programmers a free trial of Windows Azure in an effort to boost interest in the development platform.

Azure’s new pricing model offers a 21 percent price cut on Windows Azure Virtual Machines and a 33 percent reduction for solutions deployed using Windows Azure Cloud Services, showing Microsoft ...

After more than three years on the market, and an under-new-management experience, Microsoft's Windows Azure cloud computing platform looks comprehensive and highly competitive.

Microsoft earlier this week said Windows Azure HDInsight, its cloud-based Hadoop service developed in partnership with Hortonworks, is now generally available after spending the last several ...

It essentially gives you a Web-based administrator portal that looks and functions like Microsoft's own Windows Azure public cloud service, except its running on Windows Server in your datacenter.

Meanwhile, Ozzie described how the Windows Azure platform combines cloud-based developer capabilities with storage, computational and networking infrastructure services, all hosted on servers ...

Microsoft is informing customers of its Windows Azure cloud that it is rebranding many, if not all, of the component services in a way that eliminates the "Azure" name on its billing portal ...

It's just one early user's opinion, but it sounds like Microsoft needs to beef up the integrated console component of Windows Azure to keep its cloud-computing customers happy.

Microsoft is slowly but surely working to make its Windows Azure cloud platform more palatable to the masses -- though without the benefit of roadmap leaks, it would be hard for most customers to ...

In this, the age of cloud computing, Amazon's service is so popular, it now runs about one percent of the entire internet, according to research from independent outfit DeepField Networks. Another ...

Should you choose Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure or possibly another provider? Should you even run Windows Server in the cloud?