The main announcement in todays keynote was the launch of Windows Azure, a new product offering from Microsoft to address development, hosting and management of services in the Cloud.
The whole keynote is published on video.
They call it "an operating system for the cloud". The business model is to make money on application usage(resource utilization) and SLA agreements, but this will not be effective before the product is officially launched some time next year. PDC participants will have the opportunity to apply for a "tech preview" and start developing and deploying services in the Microsoft hosted cloud from noon today.
The concept seems interesting, although I foresee a slow adoption rate for companies like ours where most development is targeted for users inside our firewall.
I will probably follow a few more sessions, covering the details of Azure to get more into what it is all about.
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