Microsoft may not be first to the cloud, but they are making every effort to become the best option. It certainly helps that companies like Automattic are plugging Windows Azure (news, site). At the ...

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 ...

In recent years, Microsoft has warmed up to Linux, which it used to see as a rival. Now, there's more use of Linux than Windows on Microsoft Azure.

Here's a look at how the cloud leaders stack up, the hybrid market, and the SaaS players that run your company as well as their latest strategic moves. Microsoft Azure is Microsoft's comprehensive ...

Microsoft is willing to open up support and match Amazon on price, but can Windows Azure make inroads in IaaS market? Competition in the cloud infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) market ratcheted up a ...

“Windows Azure's cloud scalability, speed, and economics make it a compelling option for our customers that want to take advantage of the cloud while continuing to use their on-premises infrastructure ...

The cloud revolution began in the Linux and Unix world, and for a long time the cloud wasn’t a welcoming environment for workloads that run on Windows Server. Even today, not all cloud platforms are ...

LOS ANGELES — In a major game changer for both the industry and the company, Microsoft has launched its cloud. Part of what’s billed as the next evolutionary step in computing, the move marks a major ...

Microsoft beat revenue and profit expectations for its first fiscal quarter, as revenue from its Office 365 and Windows Azure cloud computing offerings helped to compensate for ongoing sluggishness in ...

Microsoft has struck new partnerships that will see its Windows Azure cloud platform appear as a private cloud offering. The Azure cloud platform - which provides scalable computing power and storage, ...

Microsoft wants to bring developers to the cloud with Windows Azure, but is the new model all it's cracked up to be? The Tubes are atwitter with discussion of the news from PDC this week, not least of ...

When Ray Ozzie, Microsoft’s former Chief Software Architect announced Windows Azure at PDC 2008, no one could assess the impact that this software platform would have on the company and the industry.