Microsoft delivers preview of its store in the Windows Azure cloud
October 31, 2012Grazed from ZDNet. Author: Mary Jo Foley.
Microsoft has gone store-happy this year, debuting a Windows Store for Windows 8 and Windows RT; an Office Store for Office 2013; a SharePoint Store for SharePoint Server 2013; and a renamed Windows Phone Store (formerly the Windows Phone Marketplace).
On October 31, Microsoft added another new store to its list: A Windows Zzure Store where it will allow its cloud-computing customers to purchase third-party apps and services through the Azure management portal…
Microsoft officials made the Azure Store announcement during the second-day keynote at its Build 2012 developer conference in Redmond. A preview of the Azure Store, available as of October 29, is providing services and data add-ons that extend the core Windows Azure services. Devs can access and manage the add-ons from inside the Azure Management Portal. The services can make use of the Azure discovery, billing and management capabilities…
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