Azure Services Platform, and highlighted this platforms role in delivering a software-plus-services approach to computing.
Indeed, the Azure Services Platform is an industry-leading move by Microsoft to help developers build the next generation of applications that will span from the cloud to the enterprise data center and deliver compelling new experiences across the PC, Web and phone, Ozzie said. Microsoft said developers can use the familiar Microsoft Visual Studio tools to build applications for the Windows Azure platform. Indeed, Visual Studio will have four new cloud templates to support development of Windows Azure applications, Microsoft said. Read more about Windows Azure here. Amitab Srivastava, vice president of the Windows Azure team, said developers need not deploy their applications to the cloud for testing. Meanwhile, Ozzie described how the Windows Azure platform combines cloud-based developer capabilities with storage, computational and networking infrastructure services, all hosted on servers operating within Microsofts global data center network.
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