ZDNet’s Mary Jo Foley Examines the .NET in AZURE’s Silver Lining

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Jun/090

[An excerpt from ZDNEt's Too many .Nets, too little time? by Mary Jo Foley]

Microsoft’s overzealous .Net branding campaign is a pretty much a thing of the past. But that doesn’t mean the .Net confusion is completely over.

Microsoft’s attempt to juggle too many .Nets is coming home to roost with testers writing workflow-centric apps and services that can be hosted in the Azure cloud. In a posting to the Azure Services Platform blog last week, Microsoft officials admitted that .Net Services was based on a different, older version of .Net — and that the newer version wouldn’t be ready in time for Azure’s official launch (which is expected this fall).

Microsoft’s .Net Services is one of the infrastructure components of its Azure cloud-computing platform. .Net Services is the uber-name for the access control, service bus, queuing, routers and workflow technologies powering Microsoft’s cloud platform. .Net Framework 4.0 is the version of the .Net Framework that will be part of Visual Studio 2010, slated to ship in late 2009 or early 2010.

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