A couple of new entries on MSDN (Microsoft Developer Network) Blogs this morning point to some now-unavailable pages on Microsoft.com… and I think we all know what that means.
The posts in question refer to “Windows Azure” and different development tools (SDK, Visual Studio tools) available for use with it. The following are the posts to which I refer:
From the latter:
“Windows Azure is the development, hosting, and management environment of the Azure Services Platform, which enables you to run applications at Internet scale while leveraging the skills and tools you use today.
Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio extend Visual Studio to enable the creation, building, debugging, running, and packaging of scalable services on Windows Azure.”
It seems pretty obvious based on these posts but is “Azure” Microsoft’s new Cloud OS?
Update: Just a little more information: the PDC2008 keynote (featuring Ray Ozzie) where Azure is expected to be announced is scheduled for 8:30am PST. Looks like these bloggers may have just had an itchy trigger finger.
http://www.azure.com