CNET News Daily Podcast: Microsoft looks to the Azure cloud

A look at Azure, which represents a major change in the way software is developed for Microsoft's Windows operating system.

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Leslie Katz

Oct. 27, 2008 1:17 p.m. PT

Microsoft is taking Windows into the cloud. Earlier Monday at its Professional Developers Conference, the company unveiled Windows Azure. Azure is a major change in the way software is developed for the Windows operating system. It will let developers write programs that live inside Microsoft's data centers--as opposed to on the servers of their businesses.

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