Ok folks, take a seat for this one. Steve Ballmer did indeed announce the Microsoft Cloud earlier this month in what we could refer to a sudden sparkle of sanity. No matter if you believed him or not the cloud OS is upon us. And the name seems quite pleasant! We shall refer to it as the Windows Azure. This OS will probably be released together with Windows Vista 2 7, whenever that happens.

The announcement was made at this year’s Professional Developers Conference 2008 so we shall see more of it in the future. The Ballmer guy will surely enforce it. But let’s not judge beforehand! The Azure might actually work quite nice.

Ray Ozzie, Microsoft’s chief software architect said that the “Windows Azure is a new Windows offering in the Web tier of computing, a significant extension in the company’s family of platforms.” The Azure should help all developers createm deploy, manage and distribute web services and various application through the Internet. Wow, I mean that’s just wow! Are you still sitting down? We’ll see how the Azure develop in the future.

via Microsoft