What is Azure•Azure Windows is Microsoft's public cloud solutions, is running on Microsoft data center on the cloud computing platform。•Azure Windows is also the core component of the Microsoft OS Cloud solution and the "Devices + Services" strategy.•In China, the windows azure combines the Microsoft's global technology and the Internet century local operating experience, Qiangqiang jointly, for China to create an international enterprise cloud computing platform.The bottom of the operating system is Azure Windows. It provides Compute, Storage, and Manage these three main functions.In addition, there is also a transparent Fabric for the user. Fabric includes load balancing, hardware abstraction, and many other functions. In general, however, users do not need to understand how the internal Fabric work, you can make full use of the various characteristics of Azure Windows.In this, it also provides a middleware product AppFabric, database products, Azure SQL, as well as some other block building products, for example, currently in the CTP phase of the Dallas. Developers can directly on the Azure Windows development, but also the use of SQL, Azure AppFabric and other products of various characteristics