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With the help of hardware partners, Microsoft has released a version of its Windows Azure cloud platform as an appliance, the company said on Monday during the kickoff of its Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) being held this week in Washington D.C. Microsoft has run a version of its Windows Azure as a service since February, and the company has claimed the service has been used by 10,000 customers. The company is now offering the platform software, packaged with a set of servers
Until now, customers wanting to write programs for Windows Azure have had to run them from inside a Microsoft data center, such as the Chicago facility seen here.
A lot of appliances currently created are a lot more mindful of their energy usage. However, for those of us using old appliances or ones from companies that just don’t care about that sort of thing, there is a bit of hope. The Energy Wizard is intended to make sure that your appliance doesn’t suck up quite so much energy as it normally would. Of course these Ecotek Energy Wizards are only going to help out those with a standard UK 3 pin plug socket.
Google unveiled more details about its much-anticipated Chrome OS at a press event at its Mountain View, Calif., campus today, but those who were hoping for a beta release of the OS were in for a disappointment, according to Info World. "We aren’t launching the product today. There is no beta today," said Sundar Pichai, [...]