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JaggedSac on 15 July 2009
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yo_john117 said:
JaggedSac said:
disolitude said:
JaggedSac said:
Excellent comments from everyone. No one seems to be talking about free online Office, is this not as big a deal as I think it is?


I don't think people know much about Azure... The fact that Ms will even atempt this really makes me interested. Supporting a product like office in an online environment takes the type of infrastructure most companies can only dream of... 

As a sidenote, if cloud computing like MS is trying works out of them, I think it will take a bigger chunk out of google than google will our of MS with its OS.

I am interested in starting to delve into the Live Services portion of the Azure platform.  If they offer some free bandwidth, I am gonna create a site with Silverlight and Live Services.

Wait so you can create a website free with Silverlight and Azure or something?

I was hoping it would be something like Google App Engine where you get a little bit of free bandwidth.  As long as you have a page to display Silverlight, you can us it, it doesn't have a relationship with Azure.  But unfortunately, MS is not offering free bandwidth for Azure: ( http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/14/microsofts-azure-gets-a-business-model-and-an-official-release-date/ ). 

"Pricing for Azure’s OS is $0.12 cents an hour for computing and $0.15 cents per Gigabyte per month for storage."

I could still have a web site for very cheap since I am quite sure I would not use that much bandwidth.  I would basically just be playing around with the technology.  I looked into using Google Apps but I did not care for writing it in Python.  They recently added Java support, so I may have to look back into it.