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Microsoft Announces Windows Azure, Cloud-Based OS 419

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday October 27, 2008 @08:24PM from the do-you-feel-azure-after-use dept.

snydeq writes "Microsoft today introduced Windows Azure, its operating system for the cloud. The OS serves as the underlying foundation of the Azure Services Platform to help developers build apps that span from the cloud to the datacenter, to PCs, the Web, and phones. Cloud-based developer capabilities are combined with storage, computational, and network infrastructure services, which are hosted on servers within Microsoft's global data center network."

Comment Re:As fast as C code??? (Score 5, Informative) 462

by Bjarke Roune on Friday August 22, 2008 @09:21PM (#24714841) Attached to: Firefox Gets Massive JavaScript Performance Boost

The optimization in the story is to compile parts of code written in Javascript. So when using this optimization, the Javascript is only partly interpreted, and if the compiled part is the part that takes up most of the runtime, then the Javascript could conceivably be something like the speed of natively compiled C.

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