I was curious what Microsoft's response would be to Google's recent announcement that is allowing developers writing for the Google App Engine cloud platform to develop in Java. The answer? Not much ...

Microsoft has been touting for a while the ability for developers to use a variety of tools, like Java, PHP, Ruby and Eclipse, when developing applications for Windows Azure. But the company is going ...

Microsoft, which claims "We use more Java than one can imagine," is pumping up its Java push on several fronts, including promoting a bunch of guidance for using the popular programming language on ...

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Azure Cosmos DB is a globally distributed, multi-model database service, helping users and developers elastically and independently scale throughput and storage across Azure regions with a click of a ...

If you’re building applications that work against Azure services, it’s likely you’re using one or more of Microsoft’s published SDKs. It’s an approach that makes sense, saves time, and keeps code ...

There is still a lot of Java applications out there that power our businesses. But what happens when we move those Java applications to the public cloud? Can we deploy them without rewriting them and ...