In early March I reviewed the AWS Mobile SDK, Google Firebase, and Microsoft Azure Mobile Services, the mobile back-end service offerings of the three major public clouds. The Microsoft option was a ...

Microsoft is combining three of its Azure services into a new unified service it's calling Azure App Service, company officials said on March 24. Azure App Service integrates Azure Websites (now known ...

Microsoft announced a new App Service for its Azure cloud platform today that gives developers a one-stop shop for services that help them build different kinds of cloud-backed apps. The service ...

Building line-of-business mobile apps for Windows Phone that connect to Microsoft Azure for authentication, data storage and notifications isn't much different from on-premises apps. Here's what it ...

Microsoft has released a number of enhancements to Windows Azure that will make it easier to deploy and manage Hadoop clusters and integrate more mobile apps with the cloud platform. To simplify the ...

The app is available for Android and iOS platforms and offers a consistent UI. You will find the Azure app a lot easier than the web interface. The applications support multiple Azure accounts, which ...

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Yesterday, Microsoft’s CEO Satya Nadella noted that Azure, the company’s cloud platform, had more work to do get better traction with startups and developers — an area where one of its biggest cloud ...

Windows Azure is Microsoft's stack of cloud computing resources that lets you build Web apps and services based on the Windows, Microsoft .NET Framework, Visual Studio and SQL Server tools with which ...

Last year, Microsoft launched Azure Mobile Services, a cloud backend for mobile applications. But at the time, it only supported Windows 8, and the team then added iOS and Windows Phone 8 support a ...