Ted Tziuba зажег в The Register

OK, so first there’s this operating system called Windows Azure that your apps are going to run on and will also be your development environment. There’s some data storage that goes along with that, but it’s not very useful, so we have the SQL Service. That doesn’t really give you SQL, but something sorta similar. Ignore it for now. Still with me? There’s also .NET Services that lets you connect applications together somehow, and Live Services because we needed something to keep Ray Ozzie busy. Wrap that all up, tape it together with some C# programming, and that’s the platform.