WINDOWS AZURE WITH WINDOWS 8 APPS

MICROSOFT JOINS WINDOWS AZURE WITH WINDOWS 8 APPS

Microsoft has added a new mobile capability to its Windows Azure open cloud platform: Windows Azure Mobile Services. The new services enable developers to use Windows Azure for building cloud capabilities (data storage, user authentication, and push notifications) into Win8 apps, according to blog post from Scott Guthrie, corporate VP for Microsoft’s Server and Tools business. When a developer creates a Windows Azure Mobile Service, the new service is tied to a SQL Database within Windows

Azure and is then able to support remote storage and other capabilities for the app. Guthrie adds that

Support will be available “soon” for Windows Phone, Android, and iOS apps.