Windows Azure Platform is the cloud offering from Microsoft that encompasses many independent services for compute, storage, networking, monitoring and reporting among others. IT professionals ...

Microsoft is believed to be building a Windows Azure-hosted desktop virtualization service that could be available on a pay-per-use basis. Mary Jo Foley Mary Jo Foley has covered the tech industry for ...

Up until recently, relatively few of Microsoft own products or services were running on the company's Windows Azure operating system. Some of Live Mesh was on it. The Holm energy-tracking app was an ...

In yet another example of its growing emphasis on remaking itself as a devices and services company, Microsoft looks to be developing a pay-per-use "Windows desktop as a service" that will run on ...