Cloud and virtualisation are related ideas, but they're not the same thing. To Microsoft the real benefit of its Azure cloud service is more than elasticity and scaling and economies of scale; it's ...

Microsoft doesn’t want to admit it, but a Gartner analyst says the vendor’s decision to offer Windows Server instances in the Azure cloud is opening a new competitive front against partner hosting ...

At its Professional Developers Conference (PDC) last week, Microsoft revealed enhancements to its Windows Azure cloud computing platform. New features include the ability to use Remote Desktop ...