As Microsoft;s Globally Spouse Conference (WPC) closes in,
Microsoft Office Standard 2010, much more components of the corporation;s Azure cloud platform and hosted On the internet companies are being sorted out.As Ars Technica reported earlier this week,
Office Pro 2010, Microsoft has rolled out its July update to its On the web Providers family members. (Microsoft On line encompasses the Microsoft-hosted versions of Exchange, SharePoint,
Office Professional Plus 2007 Key, Communications Server along with other prodcuts. These providers are not but hosted on leading of Microsoft;s Azure working program; they run on Windows Server in a variety of Microsoft datacenters.)The July Over the internet Providers update consists of various new functions, including globally consumer provisioning, support for bigger SharePoint file uploads and more. Microsoft also is adding trials of these solutions for consumers in India, with industrial availability there slated for this drop.Meanwhile on the Azure aspect of the house,
Office 2010 Key, Microsoft has changed yet once more the name of its database part that;s constructed in to the Azure Solutions Platform. As soon as known as SQL Server Data Solutions after which SQL Information Companies, the newly renamed database piece is now “Microsoft SQL Azure Database.” Earlier this year, Microsoft went back to the drawing board with this part, announcing plans to make it a lot more of a hosted version of SQL Server, rather than a clone of Amazon;s SimpleDB.Microsoft also announced that the underlying storage element that is part of the Azure OS itself also has been rebranded as Microsoft SQL Azure. (I believe this is the technology formerly codenamed “Cosmos.”)(Thanks to Windows-Now;s Robert McLaws for the pointer around the latest rebranding.)Microsoft also is expected to talk up some of its plans around making its hosted companies available to customers who want to run them on-premise in “private clouds” during next week;s partner show. Enterprise officials also are likely to talk up some of the new test variations with the interoperability elements of Azure there, also.Microsoft is on tap to outline Azure pricing and licensing,
Office Ultimate 2007, and to explain how its partners fit into its companies picture at the New Orleans show next week.Azure is expected to remove its “beta” tag by November during the company;s Professional Developers Conference.