Microsoft Windows Azure will run Halo 4

Microsoft has been an IT giant dedicated to software development, and Microsoft's game Halo4 will run on Microsoft's own Azure PAAs cloud computing platform, a move that is a significant event not only for Microsoft, but also for the cloud computing industry. For this reason, people wonder when Microsoft will deploy its cash-cow business to azure clouds.

Just a while ago, at Microsoft's Windows Development Conference, Microsoft Server Division President Satya Nadella for in Azure Keynote topic--The ideal choice for developing and running new applications. Tell developers that Microsoft's cloud computing operating system--azure and Windows will focus on providing developers with the most complete development platform-no matter what language, tools or framework they use.

Many are not. NET developers do not accept that while Microsoft has increased support for non-Microsoft programming languages, such as PHP and Node.js, it is hard to believe that Microsoft will provide strong support like its own language and framework. This concern is also the main obstacle for Microsoft to attract Third-party developers and enterprise application developers. Because enterprise users have invested a lot in Java or. NET code.

Extend an olive branch to a web developer

On personal blogs, Nadella shows off the size of Microsoft's internal workloads, including SkyDrive, Office365, Xbox and Bing. But how much of this development load is on Azure platform Hill? The answer is almost no. But next week Halo4 's release will change the situation, Nadella's blog said: "2 million players will experience the power of Windows Azure, Azure will support the whole multiplayer environment." ”

Nadella continued:

The HALO4 team will be able to save more than 60% of the cost, as compared to previous versions, with Windows Azure platform. The high level of automation of the infrastructure saves the team a significant amount of development time, allowing them to complete the basic code transformation of the Platform migration within a year. Windows Azure's flexibility and on-demand architecture provides a separate development environment for each developer at Halo 4, which allows both development and testing to work in parallel. ”

Eat your own dog food

Microsoft has always advertised "eating its own dog food" (which could be a very bad metaphor). But it is embarrassing that Microsoft has been recruiting outside developers to develop and deploy software on Azure, while its key product development efforts have not migrated to Azure. (as Microsoft sold its CRM product, it was just as embarrassing as using competitor Siebel Products)

Now Halo4 is expected to break this embarrassing situation, though Halo is not as persuasive as the tools of Office or SharePoint as a game, but at least it's a good start. But when it comes to Microsoft's cash-cow product, the productivity tool, Microsoft becomes wary of allowing developers to develop plug-ins for office and Sharpoint running on Azure. As to when Microsoft can actually deploy Office365 and other SaaS products to the Azure platform, only God knows. But Windows Azure has been released for nearly three years, leaving Microsoft with little time.

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