Azure pricing: How low will Microsoft go?
Microsoft is planning to share details about its pricing and licensing plans for its Azure cloud environment at its Worldwide Partner Conference in mid-July. That’s what we know. What we don’t know about its Azure pricing and licensing plans would fill a book. But there are a few hints and some educated speculation circulating regarding Microsoft’s expected directions here. Azure is Microsoft’s cloud operating-system, programming environment and hosting platform which is currently in beta. Microsoft is expected to release the “final” version of Azure in November during its Professional Developers Conference. At its Worldwide Partner Conference, company officials are on tap to explain to its reseller partners and integrators “ the Azure Service Platform Partner Model and Pricing ” (as one show session on Tuesday July 14 is named). Webcast replay: All About Azure According to the WPC agenda, Microsoft is on tap to outline “the details of the Azure business model, pricin