Microsoft announces cloud Computing Service pricing competition in emerging markets

BEIJING, July 15 according to the Wall Street Journal reported that Microsoft Tuesday announced its name for Windows Azure Cloud computing services pricing, indicating that the company plans to provide enterprise computer services through the Internet in the emerging market areas of active competition.　　reported that the use of Microsoft's charging standard is 12 cents per hour, the storage capacity of 15 cents per gigabyte, 10,000 storage processing charges 10 cents. Microsoft officially unveiled Azure 8 months ago, the company's core strategy for capturing the cloud-computing market.　　Cloud computing allows customers to access computer services over the network and pay for their use.　　As a cloud computing service provider, Microsoft must weigh the potential costs of creating new revenue streams and key software licenses, such as Windows operating systems and server tools that may be superseded by new services. Microsoft said it would offer a 15%-30% discount to developers and distributors who signed 6-month contracts and above. It is not yet clear what the long-term rates are and the level of charges for end-users has not yet been determined.