Microsoft also announces that every Azure customer gets a free 20MB database to use for a year with Web Sites and Mobile Services.
MSDN subscribers get a host of new benefits as well, including credit toward Azure time, making cloud-based development free in some cases.
Windows Azure may have been slow out of the gate, but Microsoft's efforts to make it more of an Infrastructure as a Service platform is starting to pay off.
- By Andrew J. Brust
- 05/30/2013
New release brings simplified cloud back-end capabilities.
- By Katrina Carrasco
- 05/28/2013
The Hortonworks Data Platform for Windows works with Microsoft's Windows Azure HDInsight Service.
Microsoft exec also says Visual Studio 2012 has been downloaded more than 4 million times since its release.
- By John K. Waters
- 05/10/2013
C#, Azure and JavaScript skills also make the Top-10 Most Wanted list.
- By John K. Waters
- 05/03/2013
The Open Technologies Group has open sourced ASP.NET, MVC 4, and the Entity Framework, among other technologies.
- By John K. Waters
- 05/01/2013
The growing use of cloud back-end services for mobile apps is creating a new security risk in the mobile development space.
- By Katrina Carrasco
- 04/30/2013
The improvements involved the "Virtual Network" and "Virtual Machines" components of Windows Azure, affecting the access of virtual networks, either from behind a corporate firewall or remotely.
CFO says that the public can expect to see more touch-enabled Windows devices being released at "more attractive price points" in the coming months.
The company operates more than 200 unique cloud-scale services.
Can Microsoft successfully straddle the fence between Windows desktop and the mobile app age? And what should you do about it?
- By Andrew J. Brust
- 04/09/2013
Microsoft releases Python Tools for Visual Studio 2.0 alpha.
- By Katrina Carrasco
- 03/22/2013
Possible products include a Windows 8/RT interim release, and a SQL Server Parallel Data Warehouse update.
Latest cuts are seen as a response to reductions in Amazon cloud offerings.
The product combines on-premises TFS testing with the speed and agility of the hosted cloud.
- By Katrina Carrasco
- 01/29/2013
Reducing application development costs, and moving applications to the cloud have become less of a priority for the coming year, according to the survey.
The service disruption happened on Dec. 28, 2012 and affected 1.8 percent of Microsoft's total Windows Azure Storage accounts.
Eric Lippert was a key part of the Roslyn compiler-as-a-service project.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 12/04/2012