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Is Microsoft Azure now a billion dollar business? Maybe, maybe not. The milestone was announced by Curt Anderson, CFO for Server and Tools at Microsoft, in this Bloomberg piece: Microsoft Corp. (MSFT)’s Windows Azure software and related programs have surpassed $1 billion in annual sales for the first time … Microsoft’s $1 billion sales figure …continue reading Billion dollar revenue or not, Microsoft Azure is growing fast People have been talking about “the internet operating system” for years. The phrase may have been muttered in Netscape days in the nineties, when the browser was going to be the operating system; then in the 2000s it was the Google OS that people discussed. Most notably though, Tim O’Reilly reflected on the subject, for …continue reading Making sense of Microsoft’s Cloud OS ThoughtWorks has released its latest Technology Radar, an opinionated analysis of software development trends. Things the folk at ThoughtWorks like include automated build and deployment, essential for Continuous delivery; NOSQL database managers especially Neo4j; mobile-first development; the AppCode IDE for Apple’s Objective-C; the Graphite realtime graphing tool for creating dashboards; Clojure and Scala for programming. …continue reading ThoughtWorks bemoans excessive software complexity, advocates small, focused services I am impressed with the new Windows Azure platform, but when I moved a simple app from my local machine to Azure I had some hassle copying the SQL Server database. The good news is that you can connect to SQL Azure using SQL Server Management studio. You need to do two things. First, check …continue reading Moving a database from on-premise SQL Server to SQL Azure: some hassle Microsoft has announced new preview features in Windows Azure, its cloud computing platform, which introduce infrastructure as a service features as well as improving its support for hybrid public/private clouds. The best summary is in the downloadable Fact Sheet (Word document). One key piece is that virtual machines (VMs) can now be persistent. Previously …continue reading Windows Azure get new hybrid cloud, infrastructure as a service features QCon London ended yesterday. It was the biggest London QCon yet, with around 1200 developers and a certain amount of room chaos, but still a friendly atmosphere and a great opportunity to catch up with developers, vendors, and industry trends. Microsoft was near-invisible at QCon. There was a sparsely attended Azure session, mainly I would …continue reading Microsoft’s platform nearly invisible at QCon London 2012 I was fortunate to attend a two-day drilldown into what is coming in Windows Server 8 last week, just before the BUILD conference under way in Anaheim, California. It is an impressive release, with two things standing out for me. One is that Microsoft has successfully re-engineered Windows Server so that it is both …continue reading Which Microsoft cloud? Windows Server 8 shows Azure is not everything Microsoft has released Visual Studio LightSwitch, a rapid application builder for data-centric applications. LightSwitch builds Silverlight applications, which may seem strange bearing in mind that the future of Silverlight has been hotly debated since its lack of emphasis at the 2010 Professional Developers Conference. The explanation is either that Silverlight – or some close …continue reading Microsoft releases Visual Studio LightSwitch: a fascinating product with an uncertain future I am researching a piece on developing for Facebook with Microsoft Azure, and of course the first thing I did was to try it out. It is not easy. The first problem is that Facebook does not care about C#. There are four SDKs on offer: JavaScript, Apple iOS, Google Android, and PHP. This has …continue reading The frustration of developing for Facebook with C# |
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