Tag Archives: Azure
Alive with Activity, Part 3: Push notifications and Windows Azure Mobile Services
In Part 1 of this series we explored what “aliveness” means to a user and how apps participate in creating that experience. In Part 2 we looked at how to write and debug web services to support periodic updates for live tiles. Here in Part 3 we’ll complete the story ...
Price Drops on the Azure Cloud
Posted on Everything Microsoft - Latest Microsoft News, Guides, Reviews & ThemesMicrosoft is working hard that the Azure Cloud stays in the forefront of customer recognition. And one way to do that is to cut prices.So last week, after Amazon Web Services, cut its pricing, Microsoft followed suit. Here are ...
The Windows Azure Accelerator Program
Posted on Everything Microsoft - Latest Microsoft News, Guides, Reviews & ThemesMicrosoft will be hosting a three month Windows Azure accelerator program in Seattle, Washington . The program will run from September through December. The program will support 10 companies in an intense operation to prepare companies to move their ...
Add cloud to your app with Windows Azure Mobile Services
Great Windows Store apps are connected. They use live tiles, authenticate users with single sign-on and share data between devices and users. To get all these great benefits of being connected, your app needs to use services in the cloud. Building cloud services is hard. Most cloud platforms offer ...
New Azure Cloud Service Tools
Posted on Everything Microsoft - Latest Microsoft News, Guides, Reviews & ThemesAt the Worldwide Partner Conference Microsoft announced a new set of tools to make Cloud services more enticing to prospective customers.
Community Technology Preview: Hosting Services
One new offering involves bringing Windows Azure Web Sites, and Virtual Machines, and the Service ...
Pottermore and Windows Azure
Posted on Everything Microsoft - Latest Microsoft News, Guides, Reviews & ThemesThe Harry Potter series started small but 10 years later the books were long and intricate. So in parallel, Pottermore, a website devoted to the Harry Potter phenomenon, went on line recently and has has about one billion page ...
Connecting to the Azure Cloud
Posted on Everything Microsoft - Latest Microsoft News, Guides, Reviews & ThemesThere are different ways of connecting to the Azure Cloud. Every customer’s path to the cloud will be unique, which is why Microsoft Corp. is optimizing its technologies and tools so customers can easily connect to public, private or ...
Using the Microsoft Azure Cloud Service
Posted on Everything Microsoft - Latest Microsoft News, Guides, Reviews & ThemesIf a business wishes to purse the Microsoft Azure Cloud technology, what features will the get for the service? Here is a summary of those accounts. Licensing of the Microsoft private cloud solutions occur on a per processor basis ...
Microsoft Renames Azure Services
Microsoft a few days ago announced a name change for its Windows Live product series which we have covered here on Everything Microsoft. When you look at the new names for the products, you will notice that they have been simplified across the board. Instead of logging in with your ...
How Companies use the Microsoft Azure Cloud to be more Productive
Posted on Everything Microsoft - Latest Microsoft News, Guides, Reviews & ThemesHow can a company grow with the Azure Cloud as its base environment? Many companies had some doubts but decided that to reduce costs and make their products available to the market quicker, they had to change how they ...