PDC 2008: Announcement of Windows Azure and SQL Data Services
Microsoft publicly unveiled its cloud platform, Windows Azure, alongside SQL Data Services (SDS), the precursor to Azure SQL Database. This marked Microsoft's official entry into the cloud platform space.
Significance
This event signaled Microsoft's strategic shift towards cloud computing and laid the foundation for its managed database offerings, promising a new era of simplified database management.
Key facts
- Date
- 2008-10-27
- Type
- release
- Location
- Los Angeles, California, USA