After Steve Balmer (Microsoft CEO) announced some time ago that Windows 7 will be concentrated on cloud computing, these days it really proved that Microsoft is really going on that way.

I don’t quite remember the time line but it was some time around the year 2000 that Bill Gates stated that the software products are evolving and everything will be based on services. As I remember Bill Gates stated that the office will be web based and the users go into office with their browsers and use it as a service. Basically what Bill Gates has said was that software will be used as a service on the Internet. Back then all this doesn’t happened. But Bill Gates was just a bit early because what we are seeing now is exactly that. The world is migrating into using the software as a service.

Azure

Being sure in that the software will continue to evolve Microsoft has created an operation system for the creation of Software as Services. The name of the system is called Azure and is combing a lot systems that helps you develop stable software services and don’t worry about load balancing, system failures or scaling.

Windows Azure is still not officially released but there is only a technical preview. Being still in development this incredible operation system will be fully available some time in 2009. Of course the question who everyone is asking is how expensive it will be. I guess only Microsoft knows that. But anyway it is definitely a great new system.

Stay tuned I will keep you updated.