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Microsoft introduces Windows Azure for cloud development

By David Worthington

October 27, 2008 — (Page 1 of 3)
Microsoft offered a glimpse of Azure today at the Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles, releasing a Community Technology Preview of the hosted, Windows Server 2008-based kernel.

But while Microsoft chief software architect Ray Ozzie described the essence of the company’s platform in his keynote address, his outlook on how developers would ascend to the cloud was somewhat hazy.

Developers will create applications that run on Windows Azure using Visual Studio and their existing .NET programming skills, Ozzie said. There will be pain points, he noted, such as transitioning to model-driven development and understanding new development patterns, parallelism and horizontal scale. While he did not address those challenges in his keynote, the company has been putting a process in place via its Oslo initiative.

Oslo is moving .NET developers toward model-driven development, and the company will release Visual Studio 2010 with facilities for creating and deploying model-driven applications. .NET 4.0 will tackle parallelism with specialized libraries, and Microsoft’s Patterns and Practices Group will support developers as they adopt the technologies.

Microsoft tools are not required for Azure; developers will be able to choose from a range of open-source tools and technologies, including Eclipse, and will be able to access Azure services using common Internet standards, such as Atom, HTTP, representational state transfer and WS-*. Microsoft will sponsor open-source projects for cross-platform software development kits under the BSD licensing model in collaboration with Schakra and ThoughtWorks.

Azure is not tied exclusively to .NET languages; it will support native code. That capability is not yet in place, however. It will also be interoperable with other cloud services through Internet standards, and developers may choose to use services on an a la carte basis, said Microsoft corporate vice president Robert Wahbe.

SOA first
Having developers use their existing skill sets clears one hurdle to adoption, said Bola Rotibi, a principal analyst with Macehiter Ward-Dutton. But she noted that a service-oriented architecture might have to be in place first.

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