Windows Azure Web Sites -- the official name for the new Azure hosting framework codenamed "Antares"-- seems to have attracted some interesting backers, even though it's only in test form. Microsoft ...

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In a blog post penned by Microsoft's president and CTO of Microsoft Specialized Clouds, Douglas Phillips, the company has ...

Microsoft is launching Azure App Service today, a new cloud-based service that gives developers a single service for building mobile and web apps, combined with tools for automating business processes ...

Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure are two of the leading cloud-based infrastructure as a service (IaaS) providers. In the past decade, both companies have created a broad range of flexible ...

Windows Azure has added eight new features, including new mobile services, website scaling, and data sync. Vice President Scott Guthrie detailed the new features on his blog. Here are some of the more ...

Microsoft announced late Wednesday that it had resolved a widespread outage of its Azure cloud platform that disrupted global industries and Microsofts own productivity tools. The outage, lasting over ...