{"id":1681,"date":"2008-10-27T18:42:54","date_gmt":"2008-10-27T18:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"\/blogs\/news\/archive\/2008\/10\/27\/pdc-2008-windows-azure-is-microsoft-s-cloud-based-hosting-service.aspx"},"modified":"2008-10-27T18:42:54","modified_gmt":"2008-10-27T18:42:54","slug":"pdc-2008-windows-azure-is-microsoft-s-cloud-based-hosting-service-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/?p=1681","title":{"rendered":"PDC 2008: &#8216;Windows Azure&#8217; is Microsoft&#8217;s cloud-based hosting service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>A few weeks ago, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer gave clear hints of a Windows-branded product that will be deployed in the cloud. At 8:55 am PDT Monday, Ozzie christened this service <u>Windows Azure<\/u>.<\/b> <\/p>\n<p>As expected, Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie began his first day keynote speech at PDC 2008 (he&#8217;ll be back for Day 2) by staking his company&#8217;s new claim to software as services. &#8220;The Web has become a key demand generation mechanism,&#8221; he said in his characteristic high-flying style, &#8220;becoming Web services&#8217; front door.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Full Article &#8211; <a title=\"http:\/\/www.betanews.com\/article\/Windows_Azure_is_Microsofts_cloudbased_hosting_service\/1225123288\" href=\"http:\/\/www.betanews.com\/article\/Windows_Azure_is_Microsofts_cloudbased_hosting_service\/1225123288\">http:\/\/www.betanews.com\/article\/Windows_Azure_is_Microsofts_cloudbased_hosting_service\/1225123288<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer gave clear hints of a Windows-branded product that will be deployed in the cloud. At 8:55 am PDT Monday, Ozzie christened this service Windows Azure. As expected, Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie began his first day keynote speech at PDC 2008 (he&#8217;ll be back for Day [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[338],"class_list":["post-1681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1681\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}