Hi All,

Microsoft's platform for cloud computing and software + services was announced last week (outline below) at the professional developers conference. The platform combines cloud based developer capabilities with storage, computational and networking infrastructure services, all hosted on servers operating within Microsoft's global datacenter network. Not my area of expertise but certainly very important given the way the industry is moving.

Windows Azure Platform

 There are already a number of resources if you are wanting to get up to speed on this including: 

More to come on this in the following weeks I'm sure.

Cheers,

Brad