The inside view of Microsoft's cloud strategy

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Microsoft this week launched its cloud computing environment, Windows Azure, which is the foundation of the Azure Services Platform for developing applications extending from the cloud to PCs, datacenters, phones, and the Web. Microsoft's goal is to let Windows developers transition from Windows client development to Windows cloud development, using familiar tools, both those from Microsoft and other sources such as Eclipse. Developers would continue to develop apps on their desktops, but the Azure platform would handle the app deployment in the cloud.

A key developer of the platform was Microsoft corporate vice president Amitabh Srivistava, who discussed the effort with InfoWorld Editor in Chief Eric Knorr and Editor at Large Paul Krill at the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles earlier this week.

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