Gallery: Microsoft takes wraps off Windows Azure

Summary: At Microsoft's PDC 2008 conference, the company's chief software architect Ray Ozzie took the wraps off Windows Azure which is an operating system that lets developers write programs for Microsoft's data centers instead of individual pieces of software for business servers.

By Andy Smith | October 29, 2008 -- 04:51 GMT (21:51 PDT)

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At Microsoft's PDC 2008 conference, the company's chief software architect Ray Ozzie took the wraps off Windows Azure which is an operating system that lets developers write programs for Microsoft's data centers instead of individual pieces of software for business servers.

Microsoft will be competing with the likes of Amazon, Salesforce.com, and Rackspace--providers of Internet storage and computing services.

Topics: Data Centers, Cloud, Hardware, Microsoft, Operating Systems, Software, Storage, Windows

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