REST based services in Azure = REST support in WCF

The examples I have seen so far of the Azure service offerings have some common patterns.
They are all accessible via standard protocols and formats (HTTP, HTTPS, XML,Atom, ==) . Services are exposed through REST based API's and return XML in some form, often as Atom feeds. An example was the Live Services hat was accessed from code written in .Net, Python, Java and PHP.

For CRUD services on data,REST seems like a dominant and effective design pattern. We really need to look more into this for our internal development.

Actions in the REST area will move to the top of my TO-DO list when I get back home.

Microsoft has annouced a REST Starter Kit (WCF extension) with a lot of examples and democode.