Ray Ozzie opened the PDC 2008 by anouncing Windows Azure - Microsoft's big solution to Cloud Computing.
To learn more about Azure go to - http://www.azure.com/
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/windows_azure.php
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/microsoft_azure_redefine_os.php
One problem is the name, I think it sounds too much like Azureus - http://azureus.sourceforge.net/
Azure http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sky_blue "Commonly it refers to a bright blue, resembling the sky on a bright, clear day"
"The term azure derives from the Persian لاژورد (lazhward), which was the name of a place in modern Turkestan known for its deposits of lapis lazuli (“stone of lazhward”). The word was adopted into Old French by the twelfth century.
From the French it was adopted into English as a near synonym for "blue". The first recorded use of azure as a color name in English was in 1374."
Other than the name, this is exciting stuff people and likely to be the way to do work in the not too distant future.
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