At its Professional Developers Conference (PDC) 2008 in late October, Microsoft woke up attendees during the 8:30 a.m. keynote with startling news that appeared to turn its traditional application model on its ear. Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie introduced a Windows operating system for the cloud that would provide the compute and storage services for services-based applications running on Windows 2008 servers in Microsoft's own data centers.
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