Microsoft's Windows Azure storage service went down worldwide just before 4 p.m. ET/9 p.m. UTC, apparently due to an expired HTTPS certificate. Here's what the Windows Azure status dashboard is ...

Windows Azure Storage has entered the cloud price wars with a drop in pricing that could be as much as 28 percent for some customers. The pricing goes into effect December 12th. The drop, which ...

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Microsoft said it will soon drop prices by as much as 28 percent on its Windows Azure cloud storage, a move to help it compete with cloud offerings from Amazon, Google, and other competitors.

The cloud-storage pricing wars just keep going and going. The latest to trim prices is Microsoft, following similar back-to-back moves by Amazon and Google. On December 5, Microsoft announced its ...

Microsoft's Windows Azure BLOB storage performed significantly better in a shootout among five leading providers of public cloud infrastructure services, including last year's runaway winner Amazon ...

In a post on Microsoft’s (News - Alert) MSDN blog, Windows Azure manager, Mike Neil, analyzes the root cause of the Windows Azure storage disruption on February 22, 2013. The service interruption ...

Microsoft this week rolled out a preview of a new georedundant option as part of its Windows Azure Storage service. The new "read access-geographically redundant storage" option is currently available ...

Microsoft announced today that it will be cutting its Windows Azure storage pricing to match prices set by Amazon Web Services. The cuts will be in the areas of block blob storage and disk/page blob ...

The cuts will be in the areas of block blob storage and disk/page blob storage pricing, and are scheduled to take effect on March 13. Microsoft gives developers numerous price breaks to develop on its ...

Microsoft, not content with battling Google in cloud productivity software, is now officially hell-bent on knocking Amazon Web Services off its perch in the cloud infrastructure-as-a-service market.

Today is a big day for Microsoft. It’s making a large number of announcements around its developer tools at its enterprise-centric TechEd event in Houston today and in addition, it is also bringing a ...