Microsoft just launched their Cloud Computing service architecture: Azure
With similar idea of the existing Google App Engine, Microsoft introduced itself on the new trend,  the Cloud Computing, over The Internet.
This is the Azure architecture schema :

Azure is provided with a full integration on Microsoft Visual Studio, to enable developers to publish applications easily on the cloud. Initially with the .Net services but will be extended to the Eclipse editor and other languages as Phyton, Ruby and PHP.

Important to note the good work with the API side, provinding three ways of webservice communication: SOAP, REST and XML.

Azure will provide services through this Microsoft Products, making them fully Cloud Computing:

• Windows Live
• Office Live
• Microsoft Exchange
• Microsoft SQL
• .NET Platform
• Microsoft Sharepoint
• Microsoft Dynamics

On this test stage the service will be free but with certain limitations on usage (cpu usage, tranference…). The final price of the service will be announced soon.

Microsoft is again on the top op the wave, with some delay respect their competitors in cloud computing engine services: Amazon, Google. Time will say if Microsoft have reach the service level of competitors.

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