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Microsoft just announced a bunch of new codenames. It is really hard for me to go into every single one of them so I will provide the highlights as I see them:

• Azure will support virtual machines. You will be able to deploy and run a virtual machine that you have customized. I guess more on that is still to come.
• Windows Server AppFabric is the new name of “Velocity” and “Dublin”. You can download Beta 1 from here.
• Bizspark partners will receive 750 free compute hours per month for eight months for Windows Azure.
• ASP.NET MVC 2 Beta is just released.  Unfortunately it does not support Visual Studio 2010 so far, but it will do as ASP.NET MVC 2 is packaged in the final version of Visual Studio 2010.
• New data service called “Dallas” that enable companies to provide and access data, imagery and real-time web services using unified framework and the highly available Azure Platform.

Read more about the keynote at PDC09 Virtual Pressroom.

Labels: ASP.NET, Azure, BizSpark, Events, PDC

Microsoft has just announced the pricing for the Windows Azure services. The big news were announced during the Worldwide Partner Conference 2009. The service will be commercially available at PDC 2009 in the middle of November, 2009.

Why Windows Azure is important and how to use it, you can learn much more about at the upcoming DevReach 2009 on 12-13 October, 2009.

With the pricing model per message, operation and transaction – this is where we will be talking about performance and architecture. The best written application – the less money paid. The free lunch is now really over :)

Here is what Microsoft is promising:

For compute, we guarantee that when you deploy two or more role instances in different fault and upgrade domains your Internet facing roles will have external connectivity at least 99.95% of the time.

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For storage, we guarantee that at least 99.9% of the time we will successfully process correctly formatted requests that we receive to add, update, read and delete data.

Bulgaria is currently not in the planned launch schedule, but I am sure it will come soon. If not, partners from other countries is always an option.

Labels: Azure