If you are looking for an open structure that can give you or your web developers the option to construct web applications or applications that are on your own computer or mobile devices, then Microsoft Azure is for you.
Windows® Azure is an operating system for cloud services. It is a platform where languages, both Microsoft and non-Microsoft, are supported. It allows the use of Eclipse, Ruby, PHP and Python. It is integrated with Visual Studio, that is why .NET administered applications will be supported.

The Azure™ Services Platform (Azure) is cloud services platform created by Microsoft. Windows® Azure serves as the environment for the Azure Services Platform. It allows web developers and designers to promptly build applications running in the cloud with the use of their knowledge of the environment of Microsoft Visual Studio and Microsoft.NET Framework. In a little while, more programming languages will be supported by Azure.
Azure makes maintenance and management of your operations by supplying compute and storage for your files and applications. Even cloud applications geared up for use are also made available for online services by Microsoft. Some of these are Windows Live™ and Microsoft Dynamics ™.
Just this Wednesday, Microsoft released new tools that will fix bugs in the current system. Furthermore, these tools have been enhanced to better performance at an increased speed.
There is no need to worry about security, personal information is protected in the platform. Only data that which the customers have provided are the only ones that will be used. Anything that is beyond the contractual agreement will not be tread upon.
The Azure Services Platform lets independent software developers present their own products or services to their clients by providing mechanisms for building, compute and storage.