Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life - Windows Azure from a Developer's Perspective: "From my perspective, Windows Azure is easiest viewed as a competitor to Google App Engine. As comparisons go, Azure already brings a number of features to the table that aren't even on the Google App Engine road map. The key important feature is the ability to run background tasks instead of just being limited to writing applications that respond to Web requests. This limitation of App Engine means you can't write any application that does any serious background computation like a search engine, email service, or RSS reader on Google App Engine. So Azure can run an entire class of applications that are simply not possible on Google App Engine."
A very good introduction to Microsoft's Azure cloud platform (which is oddly named really considering that an azure sky is said to be cloudless).
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