The key benefits that most early adopters report do not start with costs — but rather with business flexibility. According to those that have deployed it, the benefits of cloud computing, in order of importance, are…

Microsoft has launched new betas for its free Office suite and for the “streaming” technology it will use to deliver some paid versions of Office 2010 next year…

Microsoft Corp. today announced the availability of the Windows Azure platform at the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference (PDC). In his opening keynote address, Ray Ozzie, chief software architect at Microsoft, described Windows Azure and SQL Azure as core elements of the company’s cloud services strategy…