LOS ANGELES - OCTOBER 27: In this photograph provided by Microsoft, Ray Ozzie, chief software architect , unveils Window's Azure cloud computing platform at the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference October 27, 2008, in Los Angeles, California. Azure is a version of Windows that runs over the Web from Microsoft's own data centers. The new platform allows developers to host, run and integrate their own applications in a Microsoft-based externally hosted, or cloud environment, instead of using businesses' own servers. Getty Images logo Getty Images 12 months ago

LOS ANGELES - OCTOBER 27: In this photograph provided by Microsoft, Ray Ozzie, chief software architect , unveils Window's Azure cloud computing platform at the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference October 27, 2008, in Los Angeles, California. Azure is a version of Windows that runs over the Web from Microsoft's own data centers. The new platform allows developers to host, run and integrate their own applications in a Microsoft-based externally hosted, or cloud environment, instead of using businesses' own servers.

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