Nikhil Kothari's Blog
Windows Azure took center stage at PDC last week during the keynote (watch
here). The cloud computing space is now really heating up with competing
platform plays from Google’s AppEngine and Amazon’s recent EC2
announcements. In some sense this is perhaps the re-birth of Windows as a
platform that enables developers and the ecosystem to build on a whole new
set of capabilities and scale for the Software+Services world, in much the
same way as Windows fueled the desktop software industry in the past "era".
The really compelling thing about this particular development platform
especially combined with other technologies such as Mesh, SQL and Silverlight
is that you’re likely already familiar with it - if you’ve been
developing ASP.NET and .NET applica... (more)