Microsoft Azure data center to move out of Washington
Microsoft has revealed that they would be moving the data center managing their Windows Azure services out of Washington.
This is largely due to tax reasons as the state has refused to change the structure of the law to favour Microsoft.
Microsoft spoke about this decision in [...]

Microsoft makes available updated tools for Windows Azure
Software giant Microsoft has now released an updated Windows Azure software development kit. The company also has now released Azure tools for Visual Studio.
Microsoft said that these updated tools offer improved support for Visual Studio in addition to performance improvements.
They have also fixed a couple of bugs [...]

Microsoft loses James Hamilton to Amazon
James Hamilton is a a former data-center futures architect at Microsoft. He has now left the software giant to join Amazon.
He would now become a vice president distinguished engineer at Amazon Web Services.
Amazon has become one of the leading players in the cloud computing services market. Microsoft is a [...]

Microsoft gets into the cloud with Windows Azure
US based software giant Microsoft has announced their entry into the cloud computing market with an early version of an OS that is designed to run on the web. They call it Windows Azure.
The company calls it the Windows in the Cloud.
They have released limited number of this [...]